Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] up [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 2 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I told myself that I had up to two hundred and no more . |
| 4 | Erm just as an example , in the cutouts distributed , the three square kilometres , the three hundred hectares , is erm er double of course the area that I took up to two thousand and six of one and a half . |
| 5 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's loads of them at the Standard , ’ said Cooper , persuasively , so persuasively in fact , that we ended up at 7.00 am outside Holborn Tube with a banner declaring Flirting for London , handing leaflets to men and flowers to women , so he could get a good photograph for his story . |
| 7 | It also discovered that they earned up to 40 p.c. commission on every policy sold . |
| 8 | This was the year officialdom was so confused by the niceties of the draw that they ended up with three , not four , semi-finalists , and a Scot named Macfie got a bye into the final . |
| 9 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 10 | The cold was so intense that it killed up to two thirds of the walnut trees in France . |
| 11 | Experts estimated that it covered up to 30 000 square kilometres . |