Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade .
2 To the west across the valley there was a fine view of the easy-angled slopes of the Hinku Nup glacier leading up to the Mingbo La ( 5817m ) .
3 When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet .
4 Also carefully lag any overflow pipes , so that should there be a ball valve failure there is no risk of an ice blockage building up in the overflow .
5 Brunel had carried out a survey at about the same time and submitted proposals for a broad gauge line linking up with the Hereford , Ross and Gloucester Railway .
6 Like all teams Oxford has its share of overseas imports … is British ice hockey catching up with the North Americans ?
7 The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside .
8 It 's Radio Nottingham it 's eight minutes to two Ann Green from Mansfield got the er family ticket to go to Alton Towers for spotting the firework noise popping up at the beginning of Billy Joe Spears .
9 There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door .
10 And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea .
11 This meant that steering the boat was made particularly difficult , with the Atlantic swell surging up under the quarter and sending the ketch careering down ever larger mountains of water .
12 I see not the slightest prospect with the scale of introduction of these alien wedges into the population of our cities , of a community attitude growing up in the future .
13 But there 's an International Business Fair coming up at the end of this month . ’
14 Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining .
15 It is 2130 and the EOD team are grouped around the television set again , cigarette smoke spiralling up to the ceiling .
16 Yeah , they got , they 've got a massive Bugs Bunny sitting up over the sweet counter as you go in
17 You can usually count on finding old Bill Waddy sitting up at the bar here , and old Gareth Holmroyd hovering about somewhere . ’
18 The same is true of the health service , the more the private health educa the pri private health welfare comes in , the less chance there is of people who are , who are articulate and people who count in British society start speaking up with the rest of us and saying come on we we 've got a common interest and a common stake in this service and we want the best po for for everybody and the same will start happening in housing if you get your way .
19 Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half .
20 In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong .
21 Secondly , I have problems with oil pressure building up in the front axle .
22 The curvature of space-time caused by the matter in the universe can then lead to the three space directions and the imaginary time direction meeting up around the back .
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