Example sentences of "[verb] up [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vichy French drew up two defensive lines — at Damour and along the Dog River north of Beirut . |
| 2 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 3 | that 's why we can pay your commission the following week , we 've picked up thirty five percent . |
| 4 | My new friend and I had picked up two mad women , I said , and we 'd taken lots of this and that and one thing had led to another , as often happens when young people get together . |
| 5 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 6 | The 20-year-old , who has picked up three Premier League bookings already this season , also sprang to the defence of the game 's most notorious tough guy Vinny Jones . |
| 7 | The company has also established a Select Partners programme on the UK for the AViiON range , signing up four specialist resellers , ACT Network Si , BLCMP Library Services Ltd , Trinity Computer Services and Weir Systems . |
| 8 | Not content with having Equator hog the technology that it had dropped , DEC brought the whole VLIW project in-house , picking up two ex-Multiflow engineers on the way , to finish the job . |
| 9 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 10 | All we are really concerned about is picking up two more points to ease our way to the United States next year . |
| 11 | Martin played in two Tests in India and one in Pakistan on the way home , in front of massive crowds , picking up eight further wickets and playing a few useful tailend innings ; but there was only one Test appearance to come , and that was at Port Elizabeth on the 1966–67 tour , the final Test , after Martin had taken 11 wickets in the Griqualand West match and six in the South African XI match at Pietermaritzburg preceding the Test . |
| 12 | The train , hired by the rail unions , called at Edinburgh and several English station en route to the capital , picking up hundreds more supporters of the Save Our Railways campaign . |
| 13 | Jones , a current Wales choice , hammered a century at the weekend while Roberts unleashed 68 off 25 deliveries as well as picking up three cheap wickets . |
| 14 | Aerial photography is particularly valuable in detecting buried archaeological sites , picking up three main clues visible from the air : marks in growing crops , marks in the soil , and shadows on the ground . |
| 15 | British companies were the most active buyers , picking up 87 foreign companies worth $2 billion |
| 16 | Newbridge Networks Inc , Ottawa , Ontario is dressing up three Asynchronous Transfer Mode hubs for launch this month , according to a report in Communications Week International . |
| 17 | And you can see here the affect of er forty six percent increase in the price of bread , seventy eight percent on beer , eighty four on cars , and R P I has moved up seventy nine percent . |
| 18 | A repeat of that form would clearly make Derry favourites to pick up three crucial points . |
| 19 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 20 | A record was set on June 14 , 1944 by not only the 401st Bomb Group , but the whole of the Eighth — they put up 1,525 four-engined bombers and 908 fighter aircraft . |
| 21 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 22 | On Nov. 18 , the Croatian population of the republic had voted to set up two Croatian communities [ for establishment of Serbian Autonomous Regions see p. 38513 ] . |
| 23 | It 's a delightful , unique location and the Campaign for Real Ale plan to set up two big bars at Chappel and Walkes Colne Station where beer festival entry will allow a browse of the railway memorabilia ( during daylight hours ) . |
| 24 | England centre Jeremy Guscott sliced through the slush to set up two unconverted second-half tries for wing Adedayo Adebayo and lock Nigel Redman . |
| 25 | As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen . |
| 26 | When CNP started trading in 1981 , it was initially planned to set up 12 downstream units using CNP 's cracked products , but in the event only one , EPSI , was created . |
| 27 | So how long , how many hours would three men have to work , before they 'd made up forty eight man hours ? |
| 28 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 29 | But Mr Ahtisaari said that more recent checking , against the roll of Namibians who registered to vote in recent months , turned up 54 more names , and the mission expects to find that at least 20 others have been repatriated . |
| 30 | He unveiled a radical £750 million package to buy up 20,000 empty houses for the use of homeless families . |