Example sentences of "[adv] right up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 2 | He would be patient , stalk her carefully right up to the bedroom door . |
| 3 | If the sea is deep right up to the coast the waves may reach the coast and be reflected back without breaking . |
| 4 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 5 | Brenda is in competition with another speaker ( most of whose words are inaudible ) from then right up to the point where she winds up with her Creole " punchline " turaatid , a mildish curse more or less equivalent to " for god 's sake " . |