Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 England conceded two goals in the last quarter of an hour after building up a 3–1 lead .
2 Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday .
3 He accuses them of running up a hundred million pound debt during their years in control , and says the Tories are wrong to go along with them .
4 Mendoza had been accused of covering up the 1985 kidnapping and murder , allegedly by a police intelligence unit , of three members of the Chilean Communist party [ for April 1992 arrest of Mendoza see pp. 38860-61 ] .
5 But they do not believe the solution lies in taking up the 15,000 tonne haddock quota available off the west of Scotland .
6 Some states were not slow in following up the 1967 Act .
7 Since building up a 10 per cent stake Continental has tried to arrange trading pacts .
8 In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged .
9 Participants returned for follow up every three to six months .
10 Eagles , with the elements in their favour in the opening half took full advantage , killing the game by building up a 20–0 advantage with the help of two tries from Price and six goals from eight attempts from Aston .
11 MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park .
12 The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year .
13 The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former .
14 One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours .
15 The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee .
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