Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Curtain up on the 40th Oxford Gang Show , an annual event which means months of frantic organisation and jolly hard team work for those taking part ; a ritual of devotion from backstage helpers and an early taste of stagefright for aspiring young performers . |
| 32 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 33 | So we see that if you have a school that goes up to the ninth grade , the Ministry covers the costs up to the sixth grade but the other years are paid for by parents . |
| 34 | Australia , battered by Larwood and Voce , were ready to call Darling up for the fourth Test . |
| 35 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 36 | ‘ Yes , the Premier — and the Fourth right up to the First . |
| 37 | It was Ossie who took Swindon up into the 1st division — or so he thought . |
| 38 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 39 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
| 40 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 41 | The glorious ‘ saturated ’ sound of the VPO strings is strangely attenuated , and the build up to the last climax ( around 16′40″ ) is an unconvincingly brazen affair with too much from the timps and cymbals and not quite enough heart . |
| 42 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 43 | After a non-Munro top , An Garbhanach , it 's a short pull up to the second peak Stob Coire a' Chairn . |
| 44 | ‘ Just play your normal game , ’ Patrick counselled , as he and Stevie followed Buck up to the 18th tee . |
| 45 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 46 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 47 | At present every tenant makes as much hay as supports his stock in winter ; and has not only potatoes , cabbages , and meal in abundance for his family , but also frequently sells corn and potatoes , and feeds his cattle up to a third more weight than his predecessors were wont to do . |
| 48 | Rodber looked raw while Cusani 's insistance on picking the ball up at every second scrum was one of the main reasons why the North 's centres never made much headway . |
| 49 | Hereford wrapped things up in the second half . |
| 50 | In their defence , Oxford did pick things up in the second half , Druce did all the running , Walker placed the header , but Salmon was n't going to let the match slip through his fingers . |
| 51 | The Wolfenden Report also opened television up to the first openly gay programme , Granada 's 1957 ‘ Homosexuality and the Law , A Prologue to the Wolfenden Report ’ . |
| 52 | Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack ) |
| 53 | MARKS & Spencer has just reported half-year profits up by a fifth , yet many investors will have been mystified to note that the stock market reaction was for the share price to fall back a bit . |
| 54 | Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half . |
| 55 | Shottermill wrapped the game up in the 85th minute with another fine goal . |
| 56 | He seemed edgy and ill at ease and as they took the lift up to the fourth floor and stepped out into the corridor his eyes darted from side to side as if he was terrified at what he might be about to see . |
| 57 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 58 | Deviations from ideality , as we have seen in section 9.7 , are conveniently expressed in terms of virial expansions , and when solutions are sufficiently dilute , the results can be adequately described by the terms up to the second virial coefficient A 2 while neglecting higher terms . |
| 59 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 60 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |