Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 2 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 3 | Tundrish caught up with the two of them before they descended whether filled with an access of comradeliness , or leery of why they should seemingly wish to seclude themselves together , who could say ? |
| 4 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 5 | Don Shears ( Avon ) moved up to the 55 age group where , seeded number 4 following his unbeaten run in the Dubler Cup , he reached the semi-final to give the ultimate runner-up , Gordon Davis ( USA ) a tough fight after battling through three exhausting rounds . |
| 6 | A crescendo of resentment built up between the two women , which reached its finale when Pamela lost Victoria 's precious blue rabbit , whereupon Marie gave notice . |
| 7 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 8 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 9 | It can readily be seen that the sum of constant capital ( C ) used up in the two departments is equal to the sum of means of production produced in Dept . |
| 10 | It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept . |
| 11 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 12 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 13 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 14 | In plots and themes they form a bridge from The Lost Prince to the more obviously juvenile world of adventure which Arthur Ransome and others opened up in the 1930s . |
| 15 | There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe . |
| 16 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 17 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 18 | The summit dealt with the Czechoslovak proposal for a European security commission made up of the 35 states participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , as a first step towards a European confederation , as well as a similar Polish proposal . |
| 19 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 20 | There could be millions of them — hundreds of millions — thousands of millions of stars all swallowed up in the one hole . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more . |
| 22 | Then the front door bell rang and while Rupert went to answer it a somewhat uneasy conversation started up between the two women and Everard Bone about his wife 's flu and the likelihood or not of his catching it from her . |
| 23 | We believe they started up in the mid-1930s , but by 1970 seemed to have closed down . |
| 24 | I decided in the circumstances that the 35 US gallon model was hardly adequate for my purposes and traded up to the 55 US gallon model . |
| 25 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
| 26 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
| 27 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 28 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 29 | How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down ? |
| 30 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |