Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 2 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 3 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 4 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 5 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 6 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 7 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 8 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 9 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 10 | ‘ You went up the next morning . |
| 11 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 12 | and you 're not commissioned communicating professionally or particularly politely if you do n't ring up that day or the next day anybody understands if you have a puncture a road accident a client crashes but there 's nothing to actually stop you ringing up the next day and saying so sorry you could n't make it |
| 13 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 14 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 15 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 16 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 17 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 18 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |
| 19 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 20 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 21 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 22 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
| 23 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 24 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 25 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 26 | They turned up the next street . |
| 27 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 28 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 29 | Showing that their displays are appropriate for all types of buildings they picked up the third prize for their display at the Marriott Hotel also in Dyce . |
| 30 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |