Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself .
2 Despite Thursday 's show of petulance at Old Trafford when he kicked over a couple of stumps and a comparative lack of first-class wickets this season , Foster has moved steadily up the fast bowling pecking order .
3 Despite Thursday 's show of petulance at Old Trafford and a comparative lack of first-class wickets this season , Foster has moved steadily up the fast bowling pecking order .
4 Nevertheless , from what we do know , there can be no doubt that the children 's world of the eighteenth century — at least for those born higher up the social scale than the labouring poor — changed dramatically .
5 Leo had climbed laboriously up the promotional ladder of merchant banking to one of the higher rungs , earning every penny of his salary , whereas James seemed to accumulate money without even trying .
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