Example sentences of "which [verb] up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a main road soon , which goes up to the pass , but it has no cover . ’ |
| 2 | When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house . |
| 3 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |
| 4 | Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included . |
| 5 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 6 | Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated . |
| 7 | Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ . |
| 8 | This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution . |
| 9 | On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly . |
| 10 | He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate . |
| 11 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 12 | These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out . |
| 13 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 14 | Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa . |
| 15 | The group then undertook local information meetings which built up to the campaign 's first large public meeting in Letterfrack , Co . |
| 16 | Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’ |
| 17 | For high-pass walkers there is also from that road end a track up the spectacularly wild little valley of the Etzli which climbs up to the south . |
| 18 | This is a length of pipe , with a gentle bend in it , which leads up to the surface where it is fitted with a removable cover . |
| 19 | The Castle can be approached either via a narrow path leading up the mountainside which approaches the gates directly , or by a safer and wider path which leads up to the mountain peak and a pair of half-derelict mountain gates . |
| 20 | Note that the view assumes that the adventurers are approaching the Castle along the lower path , which leads up to the Castle . |
| 21 | We rode under another arch , guarded by serjeants-at-arms wearing the royal arms of England ; great iron gates were flung open and we passed through these into the inner bailey , stopping before the great four-towered keep which soared up to the skies . |
| 22 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 23 | A beach of bleached stones gleamed bonewhite against the long stretch of grassy bank which rolled up to the pastures lining the valley floor . |
| 24 | In red brick and white stone , it had a façade of great length matched by a high tower which reached up to the light which its name celebrated . |
| 25 | Prior to 1916–17 , prior to the crisis brought about by the demise of his father , the process of schooling was merely an extension of family life , a childhood means of emulating a successful father , the arena in which to live up to the expectations of a demanding father-figure . |
| 26 | Sambur and other game used this pool as a drinking-place and wallow and , curious to see the tracks round it , I left the path , which skirted the left-hand side of the glade and passed close under a cliff of rock which extended up to the road . |
| 27 | Sir Joseph Banks , the greatest naturalist of the age , founder of Kew Gardens and botanist-companion to Captain Cook , first developed his boyhood passion for natural history in East , West , and Wildmoor fens , which washed up to the foot of the Lincolnshire wolds , and so to the very gates of Revesby Abbey , the Banks 's family home . |