Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it .
2 ‘ The first time I picked up a 12 bore , it was bigger than me and the men all laughed .
3 Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys .
4 And who could ever forget the row you kicked up the one year you were n't chosen to play Mary in the school nativity play ? ’
5 She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly .
6 The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead .
7 KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston .
8 Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach .
9 Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich .
10 He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length .
11 Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride .
12 He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace .
13 He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story .
14 Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal .
15 Senior Sea King pilot Lt Cmdr George Wallace spoke of the shelling as he picked up the two injured men .
16 And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France .
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