Example sentences of "way up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 2 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 3 | The intrepid band braved a precipitous mountain track snaking its way up to the highest peak on the Arabian Peninsula [ Jeebl Nabi el Shwayb — 3,666 metres , or about 12,000 feet ) . |
| 4 | No point in taking trouble with him ; no point in explaining that he 'd walked all the way up to the blooming rectory to set his mind at rest . |
| 5 | It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor . |
| 6 | Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom . |
| 7 | There is no way up to the upper floor . |
| 8 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 9 | He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one . |
| 10 | He led the way up to the first landing , where Charlie had had his bedsit . |
| 11 | You 'll be moving into largely featureless moorland here so compass skills are necessary as you make your way up to the Teifi pools which feed the Teifi river . |
| 12 | History suggests very strongly that class tells more often than not at this stage of the competition , although it is certainly not unknown for a Second Division side to go all the way up to the royal box and collect the trophy . |
| 13 | But instead of waiting on the same platform for an Edgware train , they made their way up to the British Rail terminus , and in the men 's lavatory the bear got into his bear suit . |
| 14 | Charlie felt indifferent as each of the decorated men was announced and his citation read out until he heard the name of Lieutenant Arthur Harvey who , the colonel told them , had led a charge of Number Eleven Platoon all the way up to the German trenches , thus allowing those behind him to carry on and break through the enemy 's defences . |
| 15 | He made his way up to the top floor , found Maidstone 's apartment and knocked on the door . |
| 16 | The stairs were still sound and both boys made their way up to the top floor . |
| 17 | We hid our disgust and made our way up to the main door where the ever-benevolent Doctor Agrippa was waiting for us . |
| 18 | A little way up on the left hand side is the Museum Dr Frederico Freitas where can be seen a large exhibition of engravings and porcelain . |
| 19 | Signor Ugolotti led the way up through the dense woods . |
| 20 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 21 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 22 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | At some stage in her sleep of exhaustion she drifted close enough to the surface of consciousness to be aware of a deep voice exclaiming over her , of strong arms that lifted and carried her , but in no way could she fight her way up from the smothering blanket of physical and mental fatigue . |