Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up [prep] 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 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 3 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 4 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 5 | It was five o'clock exactly when the Spaniard and the German walked up onto the 18th tee . |
| 6 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 7 | The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 11 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 12 | Whether that uncertainty affected the players can not be assessed , but this match sank below the fare served up in the last home game against Swansea , and that was bad enough . |
| 13 | Under these conditions the human observer sees a chevron , made up of two of the gratings , moving against a background made up of the third . |
| 14 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 15 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 16 | By 1987 seven county-based PPA referral schemes had been established and a branch scheme set up in the eighth county . |
| 17 | And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance , she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |