Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 2 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 3 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 4 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 5 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 6 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 7 | Manville picked up the second folder , sighing heavily . |
| 8 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 9 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 10 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 11 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 12 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 13 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 14 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 15 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 16 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 17 | The same economic difficulties held up the last great station-building project in Canada . |
| 18 | Dissension among France 's enemies broke up the Second Coalition , though not before Russia 's most revered commander , Suvorov , had temporarily driven the French from northern Italy and conducted a legendary retreat through the Swiss Alps . |
| 19 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 20 | When Mary woke up the next morning , she saw a young servant girl cleaning the fireplace . |
| 21 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 22 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 23 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 24 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
| 25 | Colleagues who one year lecture you at the Star Chamber on how you have more than enough money turn up the next asking for extra themselves . |
| 26 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 27 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 28 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 29 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 30 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |