Example sentences of "up the [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 2 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 3 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 4 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 5 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 6 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 7 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 8 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 9 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
| 10 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 11 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 12 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 13 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 14 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 15 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 17 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 18 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 19 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
| 20 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 21 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
| 22 | The classic one involves picking up stitches with your transfer tool , knitting about seven or eight rows , picking up the next three stitches and repeating along your edge . |
| 23 | In the case of Papua , there are several more , so we will have to bring up the next three sections and place them into stitch patterns A , B and C again and knit through these , before re-programming once again . |