Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 2 | Barwick had earlier made a spectacular start to this day , opening up with three straight birdies . |
| 3 | The programs can include up to six basic effects , although three double up : chorus/flanger , distortion/overdrive and pitch/delay ( the delay does have separate parameter settings , however ) . |
| 4 | SPECIAL RULES : Each Night Goblin Mob may include up to three hidden Night Goblin Fanatics . |
| 5 | Each unit of Night Goblins in your army may include up to three hidden Night Goblin Fanatics . |
| 6 | Even a formerly nomadic group , the Paumari in Amazonia grow 14 cultivars of the easily transported cassava and some other groups there grow up to 400 different types of plants ( cultivars as well as cultigens ) ; some clear fell the forest , others merely ‘ weed ’ it . |
| 7 | Taya also announced an amnesty ( further to those of March — see p. 38085-86 ) to benefit up to 70 political detainees . |
| 8 | It was a calm , windless and hazy morning as we left Clapham and headed up through two dark tunnels along the old Drove Road of Thwaite Lane , a continuation of the medieval monastic highway that crossed the Dales , linking the lands of Fountains Abbey . |
| 9 | Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) . |
| 10 | It seems to be the case as she currently has up to 200 various groups and organisations on her books . |
| 11 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 12 | ‘ No mother can watch her child continue to be in pain — his frail body is not going to stand up to 30 general anaesthetics . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport has come up with two alternative by-pass routes as the best way of relieving the heavy traffic using the A forty Green Road Roundabout junction at Headington . |
| 14 | And Lucy Edwards , 21 , of Fairways , Frodsham , has come up with two bizarre stunts to raise the £2,950 she needs to go on the trip |
| 15 | But now they 've come up with two original-design guitars . |
| 16 | The next day a series of fighter attacks was launched against Palestinian positions , killing as many as 20 guerrillas and wounding up to 60 other people , including a group of 10 schoolchildren in Abra . |
| 17 | He was picked up with two other Communists . |
| 18 | Why should some , but not all , of the dimensions be curled up into 1 small ball ? |
| 19 | The package aimed to provide up to 33 extra weeks of coverage to Americans who had exhausted the standard 26 weeks of benefits . |
| 20 | The heavy No 1 can be carried up to 18 –20 knots true or 25 –26 knots apparent . |
| 21 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 22 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 23 | Wilson was caught up in one European war already : a war which , despite the puzzlement of most Americans , he had decided his countrymen should enter as ‘ the disinterested champions of right ’ . |
| 24 | Overall that would be the right thing to do as the story of Rosandra , a model who gets caught up in three ponderous political intrigues , is very laboured indeed . |
| 25 | ICL plc is hoping to pick up the baton and ‘ bring parallel processing into the mainstream ’ sometime in 1994 with the release of a relational database engine for commercial transaction processing that can scale up to 256 superscalar Sparc RISC chips . |
| 26 | With 14-inch screens , both provide up to six simultaneous applications from any Unix host with JSB 's Mascot as the window manager . |
| 27 | Officers say up to fifteen young men were involved in the incident , in which a white Rover car badly damaged . |
| 28 | Poster expenditure may also have been overestimated because the parties used up to eight different creative treatments over the period instead of just one , which is the standard for a monthlong campaign . |
| 29 | It was a wonderful combination of talents : Langan created the legendary ambience , Caine supplied the celebrity customers and Shepherd won critical acclaim for his unpretentious menu featuring black pudding with apples and bangers and mash — as well as his ability to sell up to 700 outstanding meals a day . |
| 30 | That choice made , they are further asked to choose up to 12 individual modules . |