Example sentences of "up [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 4 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 5 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 8 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 9 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 10 | 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 . |