Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | from the paper bank and four hundred pounds worth of grant , two hundred from the county council and two hundred from the district council , so added up car park . |
| 2 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 3 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 4 | Against doctor 's advice , and protected by specially made up mesh clothing , he continued to the finish . |
| 5 | The Association is a company limited by guarentee , not having any paid up share capital . |
| 6 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 7 | The EWGM probe was almost insensitive to gamma radiation ( only about 0.3% of the radiation detected by the scintillation probe was detected by the EWGM probe ) , whereas the scintillation probe also picked up beta radiation ( about 20% of the counts detected by the EWGM probe ) . |
| 8 | It has also beefed up debt collection by the simple expedient of using the phone instead of relying on writing to people for all its credit control . |