Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 2 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 3 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The town 's smaller churches had either already disappeared by 1461 ( All Saints ' beyond the Bridge , St. Mary Bynwerk and St. Michael at Cornstall ) , or they continued up until the mid-sixteenth century ( St. Stephen , St. Andrew , St. Peter and St. Clement ) . |