Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] ladder " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she was working , Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a basket of jharo , the resinous wood that 's gouged from deep inside the trunks of the oldest , tallest pine trees , then cut into chips and burned for lighting . |
| 2 | Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a cockerel . |
| 3 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
| 4 | The entire Met staff climbed up the ladder to the roof to check on the visibility — well , that 's a laugh , we could n't even see the runway , and I do n't suppose the pilots could either . |
| 5 | Picking up his now empty haversack , Yanto climbed up the ladder on to the deck . |
| 6 | When Sigarup climbed up the ladder , straining under the weight of his basket , the dog sidled over to him with a low unearthly grunt of pleasure . |
| 7 | Willie climbed up the ladder but the enormous socks kept making him slip . |
| 8 | She climbed up the ladder , the rungs cold under her bare feet , pushed open the unbolted doors and stepped out into the cockpit . |
| 9 | Gabriel climbed up the ladder , appearing to rise out of the rib-cage of First Man , who was lying across the front lip of the trapdoor . |
| 10 | I climbed up the ladder . |
| 11 | Windlass in hand , he clambered up the ladder that scaled the slimy wall . |
| 12 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
| 13 | worked up the ladder , but , what 's required in a judge , I would say , put putting for the moment , what we 've just been discussing on the side , that is , any question of bias , or sex bias , a judge is there in court , to perform an intellectual . |
| 14 | ‘ Hey , Don , ’ he called up the ladder . |
| 15 | He dashed up the ladder , clambered along the horizontal part , dropped through the gap and swung himself clear from the final rung onto the ground . |
| 16 | Ignoring him , Polly scrambled up the ladder and out into driving rain . |
| 17 | He turned , started up the ladder then paused . |
| 18 | We went up the ladder of powers when we squared the data . |
| 19 | The civilian went up the ladder and retrieved the attaché case . |
| 20 | She went up the ladder , and was immediately grasped by the upper arms and marched unceremoniously into the great hall , where the family had gathered . |
| 21 | They stopped near us , then turned and went up the ladder again . |
| 22 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 23 | He turned and left , ignoring the shouts and screams of the small wet attendant as — after the under-cook had gathered the other scullions round , pointed to the cauldron , the ladle and its own belly before nodding at the wet attendant — the kicking , howling creature was grabbed by the same scullions who had recently been comforting it , hoisted up the ladder still resting against the side of the great vat , and thrown back in . |
| 24 | She raced upstairs , forgetting all about Mary and Reggie in their room under part of the attic , and shot up the ladder , which was still in position , for Philip had not finished . |
| 25 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
| 26 | She set up the ladder beneath the hatch . |