Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 2 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 3 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 4 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 5 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 6 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 7 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 8 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 9 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 10 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 11 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 12 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 14 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 15 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 16 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 17 | Teeside Park , founded by the government-funded Teeside Development Corporation and borough council-funded Preston Farm and the Bowesfield industrial estates have sprung up since the last election . |
| 18 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 19 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 20 | Nothing was omitted , no aspect of her being was not party to this miraculous moment of ultimate sharing , and in the final vibration of the after-shock set up by the last incredible convulsion of ecstasy , she heard Luke gasping her name and understood that she did n't hate him and never had . |
| 21 | In the report it says that home repossessions have gone up in the last 12 months . |
| 22 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 23 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 24 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |