Example sentences of "which [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are often sited in very desirable locations : mental hospitals , in particular , such as the former county asylums which sprung up after the Lunacy Act of 1847 , are located on the outskirts of towns , in landscaped grounds thoughtfully planned for the patients ' well-being . |
| 12 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 13 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 14 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 15 | The group then undertook local information meetings which built up to the campaign 's first large public meeting in Letterfrack , Co . |
| 16 | When I regained control , telling myself , ‘ It 's OK , you 're not taped , you 're not in the truck , ’ I was always left with a residue of remembered fear , which built up in the back of my mind . |
| 17 | I think an example which came up in the Health and Environmental Protection Committee recently , did we really want an AIDS Advice Officer ? |
| 18 | Essentially , that is the issue in the debates which opened up in the Enlightenment period , and it has remained central in theology ever since . |
| 19 | All I recollect is a grey , sombre sky and the dark Seine rushing under the bridges ; tall , sharp-gabled houses which sprang up from the cobbles and leaned crazily together , storey thrust out above storey ; the narrow , winding streets of the Latin Quarter ; the pell-mell of ascending gables and tinted roof tiles , the gables of their lower storeys sculpted into fantastic shapes of warriors or exotic animals . |
| 20 | It seemed unlikely , however , that the committees of provincial gentry which sprang up in the wake of the Nazimov Rescript would welcome any form of emancipation , let alone emancipation with land . |
| 21 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 22 | At its lowest level , the beakers could be seen merely as souvenirs bought at the markets , which sprang up round the arenas and race-tracks at festival times . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 25 | Today the Abbey 's massive gatehouse overlooks the ancient battlefield and , on the opposite side , the lovely little market town called Battle , which grew up around the Abbey walls . |
| 26 | They are spurred by a marked sense of vocation : they are of the generation which grew up after the war when pollution came to be popularly identified as a serious problem needing urgent attention . |
| 27 | It may also have acted as a service centre for the nearby imperial estate centred on Combe Down and for the numerous rich villas which grew up in the vicinity . |
| 28 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 29 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 30 | 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 … |