Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 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 .
8 Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift .
9 It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking .
10 She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ?
14 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
15 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 .
16 ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge .
17 They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away .
18 Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear .
19 She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study .
20 The town 's smaller churches had either already disappeared by 1461 ( All Saints ' beyond the Bridge , St. Mary Bynwerk and St. Michael at Cornstall ) , or they continued up until the mid-sixteenth century ( St. Stephen , St. Andrew , St. Peter and St. Clement ) .
21 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
22 He was also afraid that when he turned up for the next practice , Amber and Jeopardy 's argument would be resolved , and he would no longer be required .
23 Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford .
24 As he walked up beside the 17th Patrick met O'Grady trudging disconsolately back to the tee to play a second ball .
25 He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices .
26 Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift .
27 He cleaned up in the 12th frame on his way to a 9–4 defeat of Ken Doherty in the third round of the UK Championship at Preston .
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