Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 2 | He was famous for picking sportsmen young and preparing them for success ; but in this case he had picked an apparent no-hoper like Harley , who immediately confirmed his judgement by notching up three tournament victories . |
| 3 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 4 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 5 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |
| 6 | Instead , it was Ireland batsman Charlie McCrum who made the difference , scoring and also conceding just runs in his overs , picking up one wicket along the way . |
| 7 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 8 | An ICM poll in The Guardian this week showed Labour and the Tories picking up three percentage points , while the smaller parties fell yet further behind . |
| 9 | MARK TAYLOR made a spectacular debut as Australian captain yesterday , snapping up four slip catches as they beat the West Indies by 14 runs in a rain-affected World Series match at Sydney . |
| 10 | It had been , however briefly , a time when her body and her mind had fitted together so tidily and wholely that , waking up one morning and deciding that it was time to go back to Oxford and visit her mother , was neither traumatic nor casual , but straightforward . |
| 11 | It was this arrangement that led to Branson waking up one morning in March 1976 , at his home in Denbigh Terrace , to find three men standing at the foot of his bed demanding money . |
| 12 | It was n't a case of a lorry-load of new stuff — all rubber and zips and suspender belts — turning up one day . |
| 13 | Herbert Cranko used to tell a story about a very dark-skinned man named Cranko turning up one day in his Johannesburg office , calling him uncle and announcing that he was short of money . |
| 14 | And that 's when he said he said I 'll be going up one night when it 's dark he said . |
| 15 | Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side . |
| 16 | Going up one flight of stairs to visit the lavatory is not worth recording as exercise for the average person ! |
| 17 | So in reality our S S A is going up about one and a half percent , and as you know our budget has gone up about one and a half percent , so why is the council tax going up six point three percent ? |
| 18 | The height of the front wheels is obtained by pushing or pulling up two plastic adjuster plugs on the front of the machine , which adjust the height of the axle . |
| 19 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 20 | Work out an order of assembly , building up one side of the frame at a time . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , but there was a difference , ’ he said , holding up one finger . |
| 22 | This may imply adding new relations to the set , adding data elements ( attributes ) to one or more of the relations , or breaking up one relation into two or more relations . |
| 23 | The tremendously exciting tussle for the division two title has finally ended with Farnham Central ‘ C ’ finishing up one point ahead of R.A.E . |
| 24 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 25 | Use the special ready-mixed adhesive recommended and hang by butting up one tile to the next . |
| 26 | Bulkhead pontoons and rafts were also produced alongside these Assault Boats , the whole taking up one bay in the Wagon Shop . |
| 27 | Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses , taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day . |
| 28 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 29 | Quite light really , he explained , lifting up one end , not like a cast-iron one . |
| 30 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |