Example sentences of "up [art] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 2 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 3 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 4 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 5 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 6 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 7 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 8 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 9 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 10 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |
| 11 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 12 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 13 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 14 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 15 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 16 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 17 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
| 18 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 19 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 20 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 21 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 22 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 23 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 24 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 25 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 26 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 27 | They are , according to recent research , bringing up the next generation of offenders , truants , divorcees and generally inadequate people . |
| 28 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 29 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 30 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |