Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park .
2 There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch .
3 ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem .
4 Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney .
5 Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support .
6 The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 .
7 This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation .
8 The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from
9 Lots of firms which grew up in the eighties have collapsed leaving debts unpaid and it 's very hard for the rest of us
10 Around the walls were shelves which stretched up to the blackened ceiling , bearing more rolls of vellum .
11 It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle .
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