Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 2 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 3 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 4 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 5 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 6 | ‘ The Front de Liberation National blew up the second largest gendarmerie in Algiers this morning . |
| 7 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 8 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 9 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 10 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
| 11 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 12 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 13 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 14 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |