Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 3 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 8 | 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 . |