Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You went up the next morning . |
| 9 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 10 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 11 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 12 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 15 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |
| 16 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 17 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 18 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 19 | They turned up the next street . |
| 20 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 23 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 24 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 25 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 26 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 27 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 28 | When I told Malc , he turned up the next night with a gift-wrapped teddy for the baby . |
| 29 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 30 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |