Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She walked quickly up to the front door , opened it , turned and waved . |
| 32 | provide a general education for those who do not go to grammar schools , usually up to the minimum school leaving age ( though pupils can stay on longer ) . |
| 33 | Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night . |
| 34 | I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’ |
| 35 | Pull out leftwards from beneath the overhang to gain a groove , followed by a crack , leading directly up to a big ledge . |
| 36 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 37 | That night El-ahrairah came out of the marshes of Kelfazin and went secretly up to the great ditch . |
| 38 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 39 | She turned and walked slowly up to the front door of the villa . |
| 40 | Together they walked slowly up towards the great house , Artemis lagging slightly behind to try and avoid conversation . |
| 41 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 42 | ( Usually this is the pilot 's fault for holding the glider down too much during the initial climb , or failing to get right up into the normal angle of climb . ) |
| 43 | Thereafter , print quality was as good as any inkjet I 've seen — right up with the BJ-200 and slightly better than the DeskJet 500 . |
| 44 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 45 | All manner of dogs have won , including a Pekingese who saved a mother and daughter from carbon monoxide poisoning , right up to a sandy-coated mongrel who learned how to climb a ladder in his apprenticeship as a window cleaner 's assistant ! |
| 46 | On sale will be everything from MODELS of luxury cruisers … right up to the real thing . |
| 47 | Across Fourth Avenue , right up to the inner perimeter round B area . |
| 48 | The Kaszubes are part of the ancient complex of Slav tribes who had occupied the southern Baltic shores right up to the Danish borders some time around the fifth and seventh centuries AD . |
| 49 | Senior managers are required to coordinate the work of subordinates by having authority over a wider area of work , right up to the chief executive and board of directors . |
| 50 | I took the Klepper to eastern Slovakia in search of interesting , lively touring rivers , right up to the Russian border where further progress in this connection was stopped with a big ‘ Niet ’ . |
| 51 | They played gallantly , leading right up to the final game , and going down on 836 . |
| 52 | The Final , played on Sunday , proved to be a cliff-hanger right up to the final whistle . |
| 53 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 54 | But the steady drip of disclosures , which appears certain to continue right up to the general election later this year , could yet prove fatal to the Congress ( I ) Party 's chances of remaining in power . |
| 55 | So Jane and John took to the boats , and drifted right up to the remaining seals before they scattered into the water . |
| 56 | There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd . |
| 57 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 58 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 59 | Right up to the hundred . |
| 60 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |