Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 3 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 4 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 5 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 6 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 7 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 8 | Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size . |
| 9 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 10 | Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces |
| 11 | We did that and we counted it in bunches of five dozens , tied them up with two other stock socks tied together , and when we 'd done , I 'll know this figure 's right two thousand four hundred socks we got six pence . |
| 12 | Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty |
| 13 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 14 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 15 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 16 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 17 | The last miller at Lower Mill was Mr E. White , who worked it up to 1925 . |
| 18 | I got her up to seventy-five , too . |
| 19 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 20 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 21 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 22 | Blonde Joanne had to grin and bear it when actor boyfriend Tony Scannell , who stars as Ted in The Bill , whooped it up on one of his fun nights at Stringfellows in London . |
| 23 | Kept it up for three weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ We kept it up for ten days before Passchendaele , ’ Finlayson said . |
| 25 | If you kept it up to three months there 's cat in hell 's chance you 'll lose it after that . |
| 26 | And erm we 'd got like jug each and there 's about nine of us and we all took it up to one of the rooms and we drunk the lot of it and we were all like getting a bit a bit |
| 27 | Four pound a week more on the dole , cos we were having elected earnings and tax rebates on the dole and it and it made it up to eighteen pound . |
| 28 | Yeah one seventy nine he put them to , and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they 've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are . |
| 29 | Yet , in the sterling crisis , he put them up to 15 per cent for the day . |
| 30 | Mr Pinter gave him up to 15 minutes or so , and when he did not arrive , left . |