Example sentences of "[vb past] up the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 2 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 3 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 4 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 5 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 6 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 7 | They stood up and , abandoning their ice pitons , started up the last , short ice field , cutting foot holds with their picks . |
| 8 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 9 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 10 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 11 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 12 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 13 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
| 14 | He picked up the last letter . |
| 15 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 16 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 17 | The same economic difficulties held up the last great station-building project in Canada . |
| 18 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |