Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | But they do not believe the solution lies in taking up the 15,000 tonne haddock quota available off the west of Scotland . |
| 4 | Some states were not slow in following up the 1967 Act . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee . |