Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
2 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
3 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
8 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
9 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The inclusion of Butler ( Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ) was typical : omitted from the original membership he simply turned up to the first meeting , according to Hugh Thomas , ‘ and of course was allowed to stay … . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
18 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
19 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 |
25 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
26 | shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’ |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | As he walked up beside the 17th Patrick met O'Grady trudging disconsolately back to the tee to play a second ball . |
30 | It was five o'clock exactly when the Spaniard and the German walked up onto the 18th tee . |