Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 2 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 3 | The weeks leading up to the seventh round were busy with the launch of various diplomatic initiatives . |
| 4 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 5 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 6 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 7 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 8 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 9 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 10 | the water got up to the second step from the top , but , when , instead of turning right into my road if you 'd keep straight on |
| 11 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 12 | Conroy continued up to the next landing . |
| 13 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 14 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 15 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |