Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar .
2 A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants .
3 Under these conditions the human observer sees a chevron , made up of two of the gratings , moving against a background made up of the third .
4 Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift .
5 She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study .
6 Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try .
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