Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said .
2 I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that .
3 Chen Kaige 's ‘ Farewell to my Concubine ’ , the other joint winner of the Golden Palm , finds its climax in great demonstration scenes , but deals mainly with two artists growing up within the Peking Opera .
4 The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office .
5 The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House .
6 There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf , waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses .
7 It took me about two weeks to catch up with the loss .
8 The next two years led up to the Civil War .
9 Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff .
10 The two teams lining up in the centre circle .
11 We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again .
12 The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became .
13 The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass .
14 Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain .
15 Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg .
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