Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I went up the barns last night .
2 it feels like , I went up the club last week and there , cos er , we did n't come in here and er
3 Lawyer took up the pen first , followed by Old Looking Glass , Old Joseph , Old James and Timothy , until fifty-eight Nez Perce chiefs were recorded .
4 Ouseley , who took up the post last week , was Britain 's first black local authority chief executive , appointed in Lambeth three years ago .
5 The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties .
6 Mr Chris Brasher , the race chairman , cleared up the confusion last night , saying : ‘ There was a misunderstanding .
7 In spite of many buckets of water , it gave up the struggle last summer and had to be cut down .
8 If that had n't worked I 'd have tried something else , but , rather to my surprise , you snapped up the bait first time … ’
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