Example sentences of "[vb past] up to the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … . ’ |
| 4 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 9 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 10 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 11 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 12 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 13 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 14 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 15 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They walked to the lift and went up to the fourth floor . |
| 18 | Conroy continued up to the next landing . |
| 19 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |