Example sentences of "up [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The champion of the people was nailed to the wooden beams and lifted up between two murderers . |
| 2 | A more unlikely situation for a cinema was hard to imagine , but the driver pointed to a set of steps burrowing up between two houses and explained that it was as near as he could get in a car . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ It 's the ideal match up between two men of different styles , which should make it a very , very exciting fight . ’ |
| 4 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 5 | Originally , the deli was an antidote to culture shock , where all the salt , sweet , hot , sharp , garlicky flavours of home could be conjured up between two pieces of bread . |
| 6 | Despite a 150-strong police presence , traffic was held up for two hours as the farmers taunted Britons , shouting and waving banners which read ‘ Britain is an island . |
| 7 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 8 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 9 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 10 | Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan . |
| 11 | Tory MPs protested the measures may be held up for two years because of delays on the Bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 13 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 14 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 15 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 16 | We gave up after two hours it was too cold |
| 17 | Niki gave up after two laps . |
| 18 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 19 | I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright . |
| 20 | He might take the odd class in Geography at a pinch , but he had never given the subject any particular prominence in the school , and most boys gave it up after two years . |
| 21 | He saw this as being compatible with the crust being made up of two layers , the upper one of relatively low density , the lower layer of higher density . |
| 22 | Mr. Munday was notable for his large family of 130 descendants , made up of two sons , nine daughters , 38 grandchildren , 76 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren . |
| 23 | It will be headed as president by Willie Shen , who has been m.d. of Longman Group Far East for the past 18 years , and will initially be made up of two divisions : Longman Hong Kong and Longman Asia ELT . |
| 24 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
| 25 | The discomfort in uncomplicated male gonorrhoea is made up of two components . |
| 26 | It is a binary , made up of two components which are unequal in luminosity . |
| 27 | Delta is made up of two components , 6 minutes of arc apart ; the brighter member is white , while the fainter is orange . |
| 28 | Alpha is made up of two components of magnitudes 3 and 5 ; the separation is 231 seconds of arc , so that binoculars give a good view of the pair even though it is not in the least prominent . |
| 29 | Beta is made up of two components , separable with binoculars . |
| 30 | Nu is made up of two components , easily visible with binoculars . |