Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 2 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 3 | Erm in this column B , you put an entry in this block , so that uses up sixteen bytes , you 've also got an entry in this block and that uses sixteen bytes . |
| 4 | Here the Leeds-Liverpool canal climbs up Five Rise Locks at Bingley . |
| 5 | Van Peebles père soured on Hollywood after directing the now-classic comedy ‘ Watermelon Man ’ ( 1969 ) , about a suburban businessman who wakes up one morning to find himself black . |
| 6 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 7 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 8 | He wakes up one morning and though he does n't know it , he must suspect it — the party 's over . |
| 9 | Either , he finds ‘ time dragging terribly ’ and returns to work , or , he resists this urge , takes off to the seaside , wakes up one morning , says ‘ Twenty years retired , it seems like only five minutes , ’ and drops dead . |
| 10 | A companion to their recent Best of , this compilation gathers up sixteen songs from the ruins of their turbulent eight-year career , from the glorious shambles of their rudimentary punk-folk anthems to their later , less convincing , forays into more exotic territories . |
| 11 | But with oil prices tumbling — North Sea prices fell 38 p.c. to $17.75 a barrel over the year — and production costs up 80 p.c. , the company incurred a £2.09m trading loss , against a £659,000 profit , after depletion costs of £7.81m ( £5.22m ) . |
| 12 | His head is cocked slightly to one side , as if to reduce his height to Shirley Esplin 's level , and a slight sympathetic smile goes up one side of his face . |
| 13 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 14 | Another entrepreneur described the power struggle like this : ‘ Some little civil servant turns up one day and wields all this power over you . |
| 15 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |
| 16 | S Africa calls up 20,000 troops |
| 17 | A brief isolation in his room sweetens up one child in five minutes . |
| 18 | While precise indicators of the numbers of laws depend upon more precise definition of what are considered as laws ( there is a variety of different types of order , statute and regulation ) , one crude indicator for the expansion of legislation in the United States is that the Federal Register grew from 2,355 pages in 1936 to 60,221 pages in 1975 ; another indicator for Britain is found in the Index to the Statutes — the index listing legislation for , the period from 1235 to 1935 takes up 788 pages , while that for 1936 to 1982 takes up 978 pages . |
| 19 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 20 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 21 | While precise indicators of the numbers of laws depend upon more precise definition of what are considered as laws ( there is a variety of different types of order , statute and regulation ) , one crude indicator for the expansion of legislation in the United States is that the Federal Register grew from 2,355 pages in 1936 to 60,221 pages in 1975 ; another indicator for Britain is found in the Index to the Statutes — the index listing legislation for , the period from 1235 to 1935 takes up 788 pages , while that for 1936 to 1982 takes up 978 pages . |
| 22 | the spaghetti takes up 10 metres of shelf space |
| 23 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 24 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 25 | Shrimp farming currently takes up 5,500 hectares and is projected to take up 15,000 hectares by 1995 . |
| 26 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 27 | Brand D sells at £315 per month and takes up 20 feet of space . |
| 28 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 29 | As you can see once again the advertising is a problem in year one which takes up forty percent of our actual cost of the total product . |
| 30 | Each of the six murder and mystery cases in the Monday night series takes up 30 minutes , with two being shown together . |