Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The U.S. Open Champion is one of seven golfers who earned in excess of $1 million in the 12 months leading up to the World Series of Golf at the end of August . |
| 2 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 3 | BRITISH girls ' golf is this week moving into Europe , with as many as 22 players teeing up in the French Lady Juniors ' championship , which starts today at St-Nom-La-Breteche , near Paris . |
| 4 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |
| 5 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 6 | The move was seen to be a response to the average daily INRO market price indicator being below the " may buy " levels in the six months leading up to the review . |
| 7 | Youth-v-experience or perhaps it 's time a woman won in Stockton South The three candidates squaring up to each other in the battle for Stockton South are quick to use the differences that lie between them as political ammunition . |
| 8 | When the system was tested in the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly each time . |
| 9 | When the system was tested during the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly on each occasion . |
| 10 | It tells a poignant story about the community where Singleton grew up : of three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighbourhood , and of street life where friendship , pain , danger and love combine to form reality . |
| 11 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 12 | And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen . |
| 13 | These are three gigs leading up to World AIDS day on December 1 , to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust , the organisation that supports people who are HIV positive and people with AIDS-related illnesses . |
| 14 | These are three gigs leading up to World AIDS day on December 1 , to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust , the organisation that supports people who are HIV positive and people with AIDS-related illnesses . |
| 15 | Old Congress Poland , the section controlled by the Russians , had about 1,000 miles of track by 1890 ; the Austrian and Prussian sectors had a very highly developed system with over 50 lines running up to the old Russian border . |
| 16 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 17 | Heathrow Airport expected to handle a total of 600,000 passengers in the five days leading up to Christmas Day — a six per cent increase on last year . |
| 18 | DESPITE only five villagers turning up to last week 's meeting , Kingsley residents are continuing to look into the possibility of a local neighbourhood help scheme . |
| 19 | ‘ We have 13 students coming up to the end of the general SVQs in business administration at level III . |
| 20 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 21 | At this time Scott might have had twenty-five or thirty houses going up at once . |
| 22 | ‘ My mind was fixed on the tribunal most of the day , then I spent four hours travelling up for what I thought would be a place on the bench . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 27 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 30 | SCOTTISH Amicable has just spent two years coming up with a new logo based on its Amicable Man image . |