Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 2 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 3 | He says up the A one left at Catterick . |
| 4 | something just approaching from the south two thousand feet one zero one niner , and now turning eastbound er , via to pick up the M twenty five clockwise . |
| 5 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 6 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 7 | Now the reason for the five thousand reduction there is that there is traffic or there was traffic that previously er came up the A sixty one but then went along Follyfoot Road which is the road you 'll see on the plan which parallels the southern bypass , and that is why up that very short section er there was this reduction er which was heading for points to the east , which clearly went on then to the southern bypass . |
| 8 | Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder . |
| 9 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 10 | Well you 're heading up the A one are n't you ? |
| 11 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 12 | of it and then get up the A twelve |
| 13 | There was the estate agent 's clerk , Jack Cotton , whose property developments in Birmingham made him big enough , in partnership with Clore , to take over the Ritz and Selfridges , to put up the $100 million Pan-Am office building in New York and to threaten to present Piccadilly Circus with a hideous skyscraper of advertising signs , while he contemplated his Rembrandt at the Dorchester . |
| 14 | A number of men were employed to do up the houses one by one — they 're slowly being modernised and decorated . |
| 15 | Why who 've you taped ? , have you got to fill up the whole twenty ? |
| 16 | We have been here 30 years and I do n't want to give up the No 10 . |
| 17 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 18 | And you go up the M six vi , the M five to Birmingham . |
| 19 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 20 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 21 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 22 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 23 | For example , consider a portfolio composed of the shares making up the FT 30 using data from the r m S of October-December 1986 ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 24 | Those resources in property and money could be put to good use to top up the £23 million housing improvement programme allocation this year , the £12.5 million of estate action money , the £71 million of Housing Corporation money and the £15 million for the vacant dwellings initiative . |
| 25 | and could n't pick up the sodding two . |
| 26 | This simple method avoids having to laboriously pick up the worms one by one . |
| 27 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 28 | After all , when the waves of Thatcherism threatened to roll up the M one and drown Local Government in |
| 29 | Can we be certain that aggregate demand will be sufficient to take up the OQ 1 units of output produced ? |
| 30 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |