Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has asked the bank 's 160,000 shareholders to stump up another 90 billion roubles to finance modernisation . |
| 2 | A further fifty cases followed up showed a bereavement or separation in forty-six cases and thirty-nine of the forty-six had associated guilt , anger or resentment . |
| 3 | Mr. Cousins argues that a farmer with 1,000 acres , of which 50 acres would be set-aside , would hardly notice eight acres given up to non-rotational set-aside . |
| 4 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 5 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 6 | At this pressure the H 2 molecules break up . |
| 7 | In the final quarter of an hour more than forty parties drew up in this same agitation ; and the closer they were to the final minute , the wilder their excitement to give in their cards . |
| 8 | Twelve of the 30 units making up the new HND in Social Care . |
| 9 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 10 | In a scheme expected to take between six and 12 months to set up , 30 per cent of the capital would be set aside exclusively for Romanian nationals in five private ownership funds . |
| 11 | The U.S. Open Champion is one of seven golfers who earned in excess of $1 million in the 12 months leading up to the World Series of Golf at the end of August . |
| 12 | At once the gangway came alive , trembling and shaking and bucking as forty feet slammed up it . |
| 13 | Drs Anthony and Maggie Barker , average age 70 years , spent 30 years building up a medical service in rural South Africa . |
| 14 | Under the terms of the peace agreement , 50,000 troops made up of members of FAPLA and FALA were to be trained and incorporated into the FAA . |
| 15 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 16 | BRITISH girls ' golf is this week moving into Europe , with as many as 22 players teeing up in the French Lady Juniors ' championship , which starts today at St-Nom-La-Breteche , near Paris . |
| 17 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 18 | Despite the frequency of growth impairment during the course of childhood Crohn 's disease , the 67 children followed up until completion of linear growth ultimately maintained their height centile ( SDS for final height of -0.82 ( 1.11 ) v SDS for height at diagnosis of -1.14 ( 1.21 ) . |
| 19 | Both teams won their second successive victory on Saturday , the PGL scraping home by nine shots against the Bowling League of Ireland and the NIBA beating the Provincials by 12 shots to line up what promises to be a cracker at the Ulster Transport Club on Thursday . |
| 20 | At Shell Chemicals 30 women take up 9.3 per cent of the managerial positions . |
| 21 | In the US , some 500 companies sprang up to exploit and develop this new technology . |
| 22 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 23 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 24 | So you are doing six hours to make up the four . |
| 25 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |
| 26 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 27 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 28 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 29 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 30 | Of 69 patients with more than six months follow up , 36 belonged to the corrosive group and 33 had a peptic stricture . |