Example sentences of "up the ladder " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 's going up the ladder like a rocket , is n't he ? |
| 3 | Bruno leapfrogs up the ladder |
| 4 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 5 | She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’ |
| 6 | This means that you can use the Rovertrail in the usual way , at the foot of the ladder for your power drill , sander , etc ; but you can also hook the socket-ended trailing lead through your belt , and take it up the ladder with you to work higher up with power tools . |
| 7 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |
| 8 | Overnight stardom was largely a myth , though some climbed higher up the ladder more quickly , and quite often suffered as a result . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 11 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 12 | Going up the ladder of powers corrects downward straggle , whereas going down corrects upward straggle . |
| 13 | We went up the ladder of powers when we squared the data . |
| 14 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 15 | If the midpoint summaries then trend downwards , the transformation was too powerful , and we must move back up the ladder somewhat . |
| 16 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Picking up his now empty haversack , Yanto climbed up the ladder on to the deck . |
| 19 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a cockerel . |
| 23 | They turned back into the swirling smoke , and up the ladder to the superstructure , regaining the door to the wireless hut . |
| 24 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 25 | From the start , go down the ladder , grab the crate and kill the green blob , jump down the hole into the water , swim over to the ladder and get out , avoiding the workman in the process , continue right , kill the blob and move into the ladder , climb up and collect the records ( avoiding the broken ones ) , dive down the hole , swim right to the open/close door then go up the ladder , pick up the crate and jump out the open gap onto the railway line and lob the crate at the workman , move left over the trains ( killing the blobs with spare crates if you wish ) until you reach the end . |
| 26 | The first contains a few records , so collect them and slide down the ice into the water , this is extremely easy so just use the map to reach the room containing the concert poster , records and a ‘ ? ’ ( worth 50 points ) , grab 'em all and move up to the extra life , then to the ladder and get the heart if you need it , walk right , go up the ladder and down the other side , pick up the crate and jump into the water . |
| 27 | From the start , pick up a crate and kill the policeman , continue right , dodging the dog on the way , climb the ladder to where the mugger prowls , dodge him and grab the ‘ ? ’ ( 50 points ) and the records , climb upwards , collecting records on the way , kill the workman with the crate and thus gain access to the roof of the building , avoid climbing the crane ( there 's nothing of interest there ) , climb up the ladder and kill the policeman , run right and jump off the edge to the end of the building . |
| 28 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 29 | Willie climbed up the ladder but the enormous socks kept making him slip . |
| 30 | Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed . |