Example sentences of "[verb] up [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , the 1559 parliament restored the Henrician anti-papal statutes and the 1552 Prayer Book-albeit modified in a number of important respects- and in 1563 convocation drew up thirty-nine articles of faith , based substantially on Cranmer 's Forty-Two Articles of 1553 . |
| 2 | To create the sloping sides in the base of the pond , John built up three layers of bricks from the edges , sloping inwards towards the centre . |
| 3 | Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them . |
| 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 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 6 | Ted Stanley used up two pints of bronze maggots while loose feeding at the opposite end of the car park bank and finished with a heavy mixed net of fish . |
| 7 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 8 | ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room . |
| 9 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 10 | A Japanese freighter left Yokohama in mid-August , with its name and port of registration blanked out , to pick up one tonne of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel at the Cap La Hague reprocessing plant in France . |
| 11 | The second call was to someone else and necessitated me going out later that night to pick up two ounces of best Lebanese Red and three of mixed grass and seed , on a sale-or-return basis . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) has agreed to open up 600,000 acres of its extensive land holdings for environmental research , and to offer the use of some of its ships , aircraft and personnel to help in the work . |
| 13 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 14 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 15 | Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side . |
| 16 | Going up one flight of stairs to visit the lavatory is not worth recording as exercise for the average person ! |
| 17 | As a result of Kaszubian naivety Polish land-dealers and banks were able to buy up 35,000 acres of Kaszubian-owned land in the years 1896–1905 . |
| 18 | Reluctantly , the Sicilian monarch paid up 20,000 ounces of gold for the unpaid dowry , and a further 20,000 ounces when Richard arranged a marriage between one of Tancred 's daughters and his nephew and heir , Arthur of Brittany . |
| 19 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 20 | so the staff use that and the children had to go up six flights of stairs |
| 21 | His head is cocked slightly to one side , as if to reduce his height to Shirley Esplin 's level , and a slight sympathetic smile goes up one side of his face . |
| 22 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The reason being that having given up ten percent of their blood roughly , er in the blood donation if they then continue to erm smoke afterwards , they they 'll knock another ten percent of what 's left out . |
| 25 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
| 26 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 27 | Pick up one edge of band with wrong side facing you . |
| 28 | A poor peasant , who made up seventy percent of the population , is a peasant who does n't have a plot big enough to support himself and his family . |
| 29 | Here 's the peasants The gentry made up three percent of the population in the countryside . |
| 30 | Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants . |