Example sentences of "up the [noun] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 2 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 3 | He rode back up the drive one shilling heavier and two letters lighter . |
| 4 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 5 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 6 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 7 | He says up the A one left at Catterick . |
| 8 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 9 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 10 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 11 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 12 | Can we be certain that aggregate demand will be sufficient to take up the OQ 1 units of output produced ? |
| 13 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 14 | Leicester 's highly-rated young lock , Martin Johnson , whose decisive second-half try set up the Midlands 16-13 win over the North , played down his England prospects . |
| 15 | Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder . |
| 16 | On the A Six O Nine there 's resurfacing on Road between Drive and Drive and erm further up the M One junction eighteen , it 's down to one lane on the southbound carriageway that is causing delays and there is a contraflow on the M One between junctions twenty one and twenty two in operation there in both directions . |
| 17 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 18 | Italy 's monarchy set up the agency 100 years ago to provide services to some 90 regional consortia that helped farmers and food companies sell their output and buy supplies . |
| 19 | Those resources in property and money could be put to good use to top up the £23 million housing improvement programme allocation this year , the £12.5 million of estate action money , the £71 million of Housing Corporation money and the £15 million for the vacant dwellings initiative . |
| 20 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 21 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |