Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 2 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 3 | The program proceeds by incrementing POINTER , picking up the next delay value from the acceleration table and waiting until the step interval is complete , before generating the next excitation change . |
| 4 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 5 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 6 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 7 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 8 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 9 | Cleaning Up the Second Hand Car Trade |
| 10 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 11 | a facility for drawing up the next plan in the light of the |
| 12 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 13 | They are , according to recent research , bringing up the next generation of offenders , truants , divorcees and generally inadequate people . |
| 14 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 15 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 16 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |
| 17 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |
| 18 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 19 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 20 | ‘ That was absolutely delicious , ’ Polly had sighed , spooning up the last crumb , amazed that the extra pressure had not completely destroyed her appetite . |
| 21 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 22 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 23 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 24 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 25 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 26 | and you 're not commissioned communicating professionally or particularly politely if you do n't ring up that day or the next day anybody understands if you have a puncture a road accident a client crashes but there 's nothing to actually stop you ringing up the next day and saying so sorry you could n't make it |
| 27 | You can ‘ fool ’ the drive by covering up the second capacity signalling hole . |