Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun sg] [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 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 5 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 6 | Why who 've you taped ? , have you got to fill up the whole twenty ? |
| 7 | We have been here 30 years and I do n't want to give up the No 10 . |
| 8 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 9 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 10 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 11 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and could n't pick up the sodding two . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 17 | Italy 's monarchy set up the agency 100 years ago to provide services to some 90 regional consortia that helped farmers and food companies sell their output and buy supplies . |