Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | are you up to two days at the Co-Op now ? |
| 2 | You get in , and an old Pawnee tows you up to 3,000 feet , and then you drop the tow-rope and you 're on your own , with Mike , the chief instructor , sitting in the back saying , ‘ Stop , overcontrolling it , ’ and ‘ Use some rudder , damn it , ’ and ‘ Thought you said you were a pilot ? ’ and ‘ There you are , see ? |
| 3 | There 's even a fireplace which can be installed on a wall with no flue : a container of special fuel is lit under ‘ coals ’ , and gives you up to three hours of warmth and flames with no mess , no de-ashing , and no chimney is needed . |
| 4 | So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving . |
| 5 | Er they take you up for twenty minutes intensive and then drop it |
| 6 | I will pick you up in twenty minutes . |
| 7 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 8 | You can get them up to two inches at the hilt , in the oriental style . ’ |
| 9 | It used to release captured foxes , give them up to nine minutes start , and chase them through areas designed Old England , Leicestershire , Hill District , Home Circuit . |
| 10 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 11 | The president and councillors were supposed to encourage an amicable settlement , but if they failed the president could convict wrongdoers and fine them up to twenty rupees . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 13 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 14 | Send me up to 100 words bout a book , paper , or individuals ' work which has influenced you ( you may have another 50 word if you go to say what it inspired you to do ) . |
| 15 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 16 | ‘ Thing ? ’ he remembered to say , ‘ wake me up in ten minutes , will you ? ’ |
| 17 | He kept a bedside diary giving her up to five stars a day for it . |
| 18 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 19 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 20 | He suffered from hypothermia and the pain in his hands was such it would take him up to six minutes ‘ just to have a pee ’ . |
| 21 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |
| 22 | Mr Pinter gave him up to 15 minutes or so , and when he did not arrive , left . |
| 23 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 24 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 25 | and a fiver , no , he must of put a bet on , borrowed the paper and borrowed the money to put the bet on same day dry cleaning service , you can pick it up at two minutes to midnight madam |
| 26 | Get a , get a twelve volt car bulb and start it up at twelve volts and wind the voltage up . |
| 27 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 28 | He decided to destroy his brother 's body permanently and therefore cut it up into fourteen pieces , which he distributed far and wide throughout Egypt . |
| 29 | And what we 've got N here we 've selected as three and so we 've broken it up into three tuples because another rule in the method even though it can be broken is that each pixel can only go into one tuple . |
| 30 | Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size . |