Example sentences of "up [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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1 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
2 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
3 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Sir George , ‘ that up to the eighteenth century the major industry in this part of the world was rabbit-warrening ? |
4 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
5 | this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth |
6 | this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth |