Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which makes The Edward Collection , built up by two brothers over 40 years , worth a fortune . |
| 2 | The champion of the people was nailed to the wooden beams and lifted up between two murderers . |
| 3 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 4 | The the careers service came up with two tapes which was nice . |
| 5 | They came up with Osman just where the street joined up with two others . |
| 6 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 7 | The CIS are probably the oldest team ever to play student rugby , but this composite side — made up of two Ukranians , nine Georgians , five Muscovites , six Kazakhs and Uzbeks — are unlikely to repeat their 1988 heroics and could well struggle against both Italy and Ireland . |
| 8 | The debate has again underlined the paralysis of a government made up of two parties which hold such opposing views on the resolution of the the occupied-territories question . |
| 9 | Weapons and ammunition were found — and stunned officers discovered up to two tons of crude , fertiliser-based explosives , frequently used in Ulster , and a small amount of Semtex . |
| 10 | This he quickly followed up with two books , written under the name Francis Iles , Malice Aforethought and Before the Fact , both with clear acknowledgement from the start of the identity of the murderer . |
| 11 | I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright . |
| 12 | It went from thirty two and sixpence to er thirty seven and sixpence and then it went up to two guineas , two quid a week . |
| 13 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 14 | We gave up after two hours it was too cold |
| 15 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 16 | Niki gave up after two laps . |
| 17 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 18 | As thousands of bargain hunters queued up to two hours for a sale of stock damaged by a fire at Dickens and Jones in Milton Keynes , the store announced it 's to halt the sale of animal furs . |
| 19 | So we actually ended up with two days ' climbing . |
| 20 | As this Third Concerto was drafted on similar manuscript paper as the others ( and shares the same key as No. 1 ) , and portions ended up in two countries , the substantial music for it was thought to be discarded ideas for the Firsts , although all the thematic material used in it is found in music composed or published around his fifteenth year . |
| 21 | Like when we 're doing geography , we do n't seem to be working , but when we started revising we ended up in two years with seven books , which is goodness knows how much compared with chemistry or a subject like that . |