Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school .
2 I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour .
3 Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm
4 I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading .
5 I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened .
6 I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight .
7 ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute .
8 So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right .
9 Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 .
10 The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study .
11 Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift .
12 Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ?
13 As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear .
14 Yes you do , you break up on the twentieth !
15 No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring .
16 ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ?
17 It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking .
18 Yeah , you say it after one go and you go up to the next go do n't you ?
19 So , security guard came over , and if you go up to the next stop , bus , you could come in with them .
20 She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call .
21 I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road .
22 As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished .
23 So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ?
24 And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ?
25 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
26 W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War .
27 Finally , it is possible that tighter control of restrictive practices agreements between firms is one of the factors that provide an incentive for mergers , a subject we take up in the next section .
28 This we take up in the next chapter .
29 ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge .
30 They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away .
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