Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 2 | So far the survey has picked up 20 galaxies ; it should eventually find several thousand . |
| 3 | Since then he has picked up 20 disqualifications and has served 12 jail sentences . |
| 4 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 5 | TOM KITE , winner of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta , California , with a record-breaking 35-under-par total of 325 for the five-round tournament , has moved up one place to ninth in the latest Sony world rankings . |
| 6 | Mark James has moved up 15 places to 38th following his victory in the Tenerife Open . |
| 7 | A beach clean-up along 300 miles of Texas shoreline has turned up 15,600 plastic six-pack rings in 3 hours . |
| 8 | Middlesbrough Council wants to buy up 200 properties to clear the area and make a fresh start . |
| 9 | Grampian has drawn up six programmes which they hope will qualify for EC aid , ranging from re-training schemes , tourism development in upland areas and harbour towns , and transport and communications improvements . |
| 10 | FLINTSHIRE team manager Tudor Jones has called up six Northop Hall players in a bold bid to topple old foes Denbighshire in today 's crunch clash in the Welsh Cricket Association 's Ansells Cup at Brymbo . |
| 11 | In choosing , Alsys has to weigh up two objectives : which technology has greater market share and is more attractive to third parties and which technology will be the standard internally at Thomson for engineering . |
| 12 | The artist has taken fifty round metal boxes , once used for keeping radio sound tapes , and on each has set up two photographs , supported by old film racks ; blurred images from pornographic television films are shown side by side with black and white images from Holocaust archives . |
| 13 | United Distillers has set up two distribution networks in South East Asia through joint venture companies : one with Moët Hennessy , called Riche Monde , and the other with Moët Hennessy and Inchcape , called Caldbecks . |
| 14 | To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is the Trading Standards Department in Nottinghamshire er has set up three advice centres to help consumers with information and advice when you have problems like that . |
| 15 | Joyce , a Protestant who married a Catholic , has brought up eight children . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Xhibition has rounded up three keynote speakers : DEC 's vice-president of research Sam Fuller will speak on ‘ Unix and Microsoft Windows NT , Friends or Foes ? ; ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Xhibition has rounded up three keynotes : DEC 's vice president of research Sam Fuller will be speaking on ‘ Unix and Microsoft Windows NT , Friends or Foes ? ; ’ |
| 18 | Glencroft — who has chalked up 17 victories — brought Chapman his happiest racing moment . |
| 19 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 20 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 21 | His son , Bill , works in the glost ovens department at Barlaston and has notched up 48 years with the company . |
| 22 | Also at Carn Vellan , Rowland Edwards has put up two routes in a more traditional vein , both un-named . |
| 23 | The Santa Cruz Operation Inc has signed up six UK software vendors to provide packaged , multi-user accountancy solutions running on SCO Unix , including installation , training and maintenance , in addition to hardware and software through Basingstoke , Hampshire-based outlet Frontline Distribution Ltd . |
| 24 | RELIANT devotee Joe Edwards , 77 , of Dudley , West Midlands , has clocked up 250,000 miles over 33 years in the cars . |
| 25 | Thomas has clocked up 40 years service with Llanidloes . |
| 26 | Davies has snapped up three players from neighbours Holywell Town , goalkeeper David Edwards , centre back Alex Goss and midfielder Darren Horne who had a previous spell with Flint . |
| 27 | She says bringing up three children plus two career moves her husband works for a computer firm strung out her studies . |
| 28 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 29 | they nearly did it brilliant way , remember I had the little labels on them and they 've all got mixed up one way or another |
| 30 | ‘ We 've got to pick up three points against Watford tomorrow or it will be more bad news . ’ |