Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A flight of steps led up the mound to the base of the figure . |
| 2 | Cross over this bridge and follow the broad trackway on the other side leading up the valley to Scandale Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 3 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 4 | Now let your eyes climb up the trunk to the branches , slowly , watching all the time . |
| 5 | These roads open up the rainforest to waves of settlers who move into the forests and clear even more land by fire . |
| 6 | The bag is difficult to get a hold on , but eventually he manages to secure a line to it and troops back up the road to the waiting vehicles . |
| 7 | But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down . |
| 8 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes . |
| 10 | The entire Met staff climbed up the ladder to the roof to check on the visibility — well , that 's a laugh , we could n't even see the runway , and I do n't suppose the pilots could either . |
| 11 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 12 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 13 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 14 | Tim ran up the roof to the window . |
| 15 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |