Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] their [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEARING up for their 25th anniversary , the British Aviation Preservation Council staged its 98th quarterly conference at the Yorkshire Air Museum ( YAM ) , Elvington , on November 2 . |
| 2 | Now Leicester need a win in their last game , and they have to hope Boro slip up in their last two , at home to Grimsby on Tuesday and at Wolves next Saturday , if they are to keep hold of second place and avoid the nerve-wracking play-offs . |
| 3 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 4 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 5 | We counted 17 dead hinds in the wood , most still curled up in their last sleep , dead from cold and wet , exhaustion and starvation . |
| 6 | ITALY , weakened by injuries and suspension , could face a torrid time in tonight 's World Cup qualifier against a Portuguese side fired up for their first home match in the series . |
| 7 | So it 's an ongoing process that the first medical pra or some medical practice booklets are just coming up for their second resale . |
| 8 | Other young people vote with their feet and leave early by failing to turn up during their last year , and sometimes their last two years at school . |
| 9 | This process occurs as a result of five stages , sometimes known as the ABCDE approach , which is illustrated with an example of a man whose girlfriend fails to turn up on their first date . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |