Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 2 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 3 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 4 | But most of the gap between Britain and other countries opens up within the next 20 years . |
| 5 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 6 | Finally , David Stirling intended to take a small party and penetrate right through the enemy lines to join up with the First Army , which had landed in Algeria . |
| 7 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 8 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 9 | The weeks leading up to the seventh round were busy with the launch of various diplomatic initiatives . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 14 | It was suggested earlier that the agencies set up during the nineteenth century to implement social policies were often ad hoc bodies . |
| 15 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 16 | Well full details of most of these games coming up over the next hour here on Talking Sport , now though the leading local results : League division two ; Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil ; the Beezer Homes League southern division ; Witney one , Erith and Belvedere nil ; the Vauxhall League division two south ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two ; the South Midland League premier division ; Langford one , Thame two ; the O'Brien Trophy ; Tring three , Oxford City one ; the Hellenic League premier cup ; Banbury one , Carterton two ; Bicester two , Milton nil ; Didcot one , Almondsbury nil ; Wantage nil , Bishops Cleve one ; the premier division ; Hounslow three , Headington Amateurs one ; Swindon Athletic one , Abingdon United nil ; the Combination League ; Portsmouth Reserves four , Oxford United Reserves two ; and the south-east Counties League ; Oxford United one , Swindon nil ; now for the classified football results , here 's Headley Feast . |
| 17 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 18 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 19 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 20 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |