Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 2 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 3 | Right so we 've agreed on a maximum of sixteen and three quarter percent paper wastage , three hours setting up time , and er , four and half hours printing . |
| 4 | We spent two or three hours bagging up clothes to take to the charity shops . |
| 5 | Brett and Masala flanked the back door and the other three bodyguards took up positions on the other side of the car , facing the photographers . |
| 6 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 7 | It was because of events like that at Castlemorton Common near Malvern in May , when around 20,000 travellers set up camp for an illegal Bank Holiday festival , that the Government announced tough new measures to deal with illegal encampments . |
| 8 | On the night of April 27/28 , 1942 , a force of 31 Halifaxes from 10 , 35 and 76 Squadrons and 12 Lancasters from 44 and 97 Squadrons flew up Faetten Fjord in a desperate attempt to inflict damage or sink the Tirpitz . |
| 9 | It also said that it could take up to 15 years to clean up oil pollution along the Saudi Arabian coast . |
| 10 | On the night of 13 March the U.852 sank a steamer called the Peleus and then cruised round the area shining a searchlight on wreckage and survivors while the ship 's first lieutenant , doctor and engineer officer with two ratings picked up guns and grenades and by indiscriminate firing endeavoured to destroy all traces of the sinking before the patrolling aircraft arrived in the morning . |
| 11 | Really , two things brought up investigation to consider the first is with trusts the very important piece of work that 's done by trusts on behalf of the provence another provence may or may not know that there are the trusts have now been er , between trusts erm South Wales trusts erm |
| 12 | In that year , 1955 , when McCarthy was of no more consequence , twenty-two witnesses plucked up courage not to testify , including the folk singer , Pete Seeger , who got a year in jail for his stand . |
| 13 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 14 | The cabinet announced 48 measures to speed up integration of the country 's immigrant population , including a permanent inter-ministerial committee on integration . |