Example sentences of "[verb] up in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 2 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 3 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 4 | But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ? |
| 5 | It spins up in one second ; evaluation units now at $500 . |
| 6 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 7 | Each turkey , fresh from the taxidermist , has been tarted up in one sort of drag or another from Parlour maid to Kabuki actor and , who knows ? maybe even Uncle Sam . |
| 8 | Boon , meanwhile , joined his captain Border and coach Bob Simpson in completing 1000 runs in Tests against India : his 12th Test century ( fifth against India ) came up in 321 minutes ( 250 balls ) , with 13 fours . |
| 9 | Possibly more champions are made up in one year in Australia than the total achieved in the UK since the breed 's first introduction . |
| 10 | Staff at Corin Medical in Cirencester are producing the different pieces of the artificial hip joint which like lego can be made up in 120 combinations . |
| 11 | From here they can be drawn up in two ranks , both of which can fire , and they can draw line of sight to almost any place on the field . |
| 12 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 13 | Each item of information is wrapped up in two lines of the file . |
| 14 | The pack of cards was shuffled and the subject held the cards face up in one hand . |
| 15 | In our movie a brute of a German called Otto is killed ( sort of accidentally ) and ends up in two suitcases . |
| 16 | His plan would allow each country a ‘ quota ’ until the end of the next century — a quota Britain would use up in 42 years at its present rate of emissions . |
| 17 | Answer guide : Generally expenses are more certain in amount and it is easier to identify what has been used up as it is all used up in one period . |
| 18 | On each side a wide staircase led up in six zigzag sections , breaking off abruptly on an open landing about twenty metres above the ground . |
| 19 | But already McCreery had noted the critical situation building up in 5 Corps area reported in the earlier signal , 0.410 , and had begun to take action . |
| 20 | I think the proof of the pudding was that y you know you finished up in twelve minutes and arguably you have three minutes could have been spent floating around just chatting about this , that and the other . |
| 21 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 22 | Many anglers arrive for a couple of days fishing and seem quite happy to bivvy up in one swim and wait for the zander to arrive . |
| 23 | Sparta 'll be coming up in five minutes exactly . ’ |
| 24 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 25 | He said that special bodies had been set up in 20 enterprises and organizations to deal with " irregularities " and " speculation " in the supply of these goods . |
| 26 | Wittgenstein 's treatment of intentionality can be summed up in one sentence from the Philosophical Grammar : ‘ It is in language that it 's all done ’ . |
| 27 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 28 | Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 29 | The reason for this can be summed up in one word — dragons . |
| 30 | The reason for that failure can be summed up in one word : ‘ Next ’ . |