Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] up [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 2 | Y CYRFF : ‘ Mae Ddoe Yn Ddoe ’ Welsh language guitar group who split up last year issue 22-track compilation spanning their eight-year career — out now |
| 3 | Last night I sat up last night to watch that George Foreman fight and they had to put football on before it and I fell asleep and I missed the bloody fight ! |
| 4 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |
| 5 | I just , Birmingham Region , I think the delegate who came up second about long service ambulance staff and the going down . |
| 6 | One man was so overcome by the gig he jumped up next to the band and harassed the crowd into giving them a standing ovation . |
| 7 | The 11 tourists , with a lot of help from the four friends who made up last night 's team , gave an astounding display to inflict on France their first defeat here for seven years . |
| 8 | Every time they looked up last night all they experienced was rain , rain and more rain . |