Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] up [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is preferable to the alternative of being locked up twenty-three hours out of twenty-four , ’ Merrick echoed . |
| 2 | So it 's got to put up it 's got ta be put up eight per cent , I can tell you that . |
| 3 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 4 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 5 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 6 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 7 | ‘ I really think we ought to be following up one or two of those other leads , sir . |
| 8 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 9 | All we are really concerned about is picking up two more points to ease our way to the United States next year . |