Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the Leeds-Liverpool canal climbs up Five Rise Locks at Bingley . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 4 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 5 | He wakes up one morning and though he does n't know it , he must suspect it — the party 's over . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Another entrepreneur described the power struggle like this : ‘ Some little civil servant turns up one day and wields all this power over you . |
| 10 | A brief isolation in his room sweetens up one child in five minutes . |
| 11 | To construct one , the spider clambers up one side of the gap and lifts her abdomen into the air . |
| 12 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 13 | Peter Marshall moves up one place to No 6 and Chris Walker climbs three places to No 7 . |
| 14 | Blocks them off as well yeah , and it comes up one channel in use when they cleared out card down , it clears the card so you can take it out I do n't , they come down three channels in use , two channels in use , one channel in use . |