Example sentences of "[num] [to-vb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 2 | Smith , a TA corporal in 10 Para and Rennie , a TA sergeant in 15 Para , then returned to Camp Three to pick up extra rope and equipment to push the route further at the next opportunity . |
| 3 | Organisers — expecting 70,000 to turn up this weekend at Tatton Park in Cheshire — have offered ticket-holders their money back . |
| 4 | 5.17.2 to give up all keys of the Premises to the Landlord and |
| 5 | Measures introduced since the 1970s to clean up industrial pollution have reduced levels of aerial deposits of sulphur — a trace element which plants need to grow — to such an extent that crop yields and quality are becoming affected , according to a British scientist . |
| 6 | When Cindy returned home to the small Illinois farming community of 39,400 to look up old friends two Thanksgivings ago , the resentment only increased . |
| 7 | Twenty-five was about the average age of marriage for Scottish women , — and it does appear to be the case that with the notable exception of Dundee ( where a large number of women continued working ) it was usual throughout the period up to 1914 to give up regular employment on marriage and to return to it only if widowed or in great hardship . |
| 8 | Other permanent quadrats were set up by Forrest Shreve ( 1915 ) at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington at Tucson , Arizona , and it appears to be through a colleague of Shreve , W. A. Cannon , that T. G. B. Osborn was stimulated in 1926 to set up permanent quadrats in heavily used shrub land and a reserve released from grazing at Koonamore in S. Australia ( Osborn , Wood & Partridge , 1935 ; O. B. Williams & Mott , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | ( The five Central Asian republics — Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Kirgizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia — reached a further agreement on Aug. 14 to set up direct trading links between them and to reduce their dependence on central economic planning . |
| 10 | A Royal Commission was appointed in April 1990 to draw up national charter to regulate political life [ see pp. 37392-93 ] . |
| 11 | Dr. B. Hosetti and Dr. Ranjana Saxene arrived during 1990 to take up postdoctoral scholarships from the Leverhulme Trust and the European Community respectively . |