Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 2 | There are a lot of enthusiasts coming up with a lot of good ideas but the information never gets out . |
| 3 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 4 | It was decided to include mainly the fourth year pupils that each school defined as being below average in attainment in mathematics , that is , the lowest 50 per cent of pupils rounded up to a complete set . |
| 5 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 6 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |