Example sentences of "that [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 2 | From her seat she could see the winding road that led up to the elegant gateway of Casa Madrid , and she could even see the sprinklers sending blessed water swirling over the melon and pineapple fields . |
| 3 | This wedge-shaped promontory that led up to the isolated rock on which the castle itself stood was nowhere quite sheer , and stunted trees rooting precariously in its crevices afforded cover for one solitary boy , though they would not have hidden an approach in numbers . |
| 4 | Casually , keeping a light touch on Haminh 's mind , she wandered over to the metal ramp that led up to the residential walkway , encouraging Haminh with light touches to turn into the gangpath instead of walking straight past to her own doorway . |
| 5 | Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage . |
| 6 | The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge . |
| 7 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 8 | Even though the morning 's inclement weather prevented some aircraft from reaching Rendcomb , an interesting selection of display and visiting aircraft could be seen by the undaunted crown that turned up during the awful morning . |
| 9 | Of all the German patriotic associations that sprang up along the eastern borders in the 1890s it was the Ostmarkenverein , the Eastern Marches Society founded in 1894 , that was to have the most profound impact on German border society . |
| 10 | The ‘ Golden Ring ’ is an eleven-day journey from Leningrad to Moscow , travelling through the ninth and eleventh-century fortified towns that sprang up in the central and north- eastern regions of Russia . |
| 11 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 12 | But the cry that went up from the angry crowd , kept at bay by the military , was ‘ Ireland starves , England profits ! ’ |