Example sentences of "make [pron] [noun] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At seven on the Saturday night of the prêt-à-porter showings , I make my way up the mirrored staircase in Chanel 's couture house in the rue Cambon . |
| 2 | For a minute longer father and son stood watching as the boat was rowed almost noiselessly out to sea ; and they were just about to return and make their way up the passage to the house when the sound of falling stones broke the silence of the night . |
| 3 | Emma Lyon , who made her way up the social scale by similar means , would have found herself in prison earlier had it not been for the lifeline thrown to her by her friends and former lovers . |
| 4 | Finally , hugging the bottle 's warmth to her chest , she checked on the bolts of the front and back doors and made her way up the uncarpeted stairs to bed . |
| 5 | Babushka made her way up the hill to the stable . |
| 6 | Theodora made her way up the chancel , genuflected briefly and knelt in the silent pew , praying for ‘ the soul of thy servant , Paul , his family and all who worship here ’ . |
| 7 | Then on determined steps she made her way up the path , cursing and swearing under her breath . |
| 8 | Still , as she made her way up the narrow staircase to the agency office at five minutes to ten , it was hard to contain her excitement . |
| 9 | Humming softly , Caroline made her way up the broad stairway to the second floor of the palazzo . |
| 10 | On her first opening day , 300 visitors made their way up the farm 's single-track drive . |
| 11 | They landed at Inverkeithing and made their way up the cliffs , the summer sun warming their backs , past Aberdour onto Kinghorn Ness , Corbett showing them the place King Alexander III allegedly fell , before going down the path to the royal manor . |
| 12 | As they made their way up the stairs the smell of cooking and urine seemed to overpower them . |
| 13 | The grass was wet and thick near the stream and they made their way up the opposite slope , looking for drier ground . |
| 14 | They were good , big bells , the bells of St Saviour 's , and when they rang that crisp Saturday morning in December , the echo of their music returned across the harbour to the people of Polruan as they made their way up the hill to see the two couples joined in matrimony . |
| 15 | Katherine , as they made their way up the stairs , made no attempt to answer Portia 's unspoken question and engage in confidences about her mother . |
| 16 | A party of French tourists arrived from the bazaars and made their way up the steps . |
| 17 | Lindsey watched as the two made their way up the ward . |
| 18 | But a part of her did , and so she did n't stop Mandy as she continued to talk while they made their way up the hill towards their cabin . |
| 19 | As our taxi made its way up the winding road to the north west of the island , we passed immaculate terraces filled with olive and citrus groves beneath which tethered goats grazed happily on the dry clumps of grass . |
| 20 | Three minutes later a curious little procession made its way up the stairs . |
| 21 | The main advantage with this system would be that players from junior clubs could get noticed by selectors and make their way up the representative ladder without having to move clubs . |
| 22 | A little farther on he cut across the strip of parched grass known as the Villa Comunale which separated Via Caracciolo from the long parallel sweep of the Riviera di Chiaia and made his way up the hill again , away from the bay . |
| 23 | He found Merlyn Rock where , in the summer of 1595 , the Spaniards landed and burned the village along with Newlyn and Penzance ; then in the gathering dusk he made his way up the hill out of the village to Paul and the church of St Pol de Leon ( not he of Tarsus but a Celtic gentleman ) , also burned by the Spaniards and rebuilt afterwards . |
| 24 | Seb made his way up the stairs in the same fashion as on the previous evening . |
| 25 | He would be dead soon , anyway , he reflected , as he made his way up the Museum stairs . |
| 26 | The crew hailed a fishing-skiff who gave them information that a French ship had been seen making its way up the Firth the previous day . |
| 27 | Somewhere outside , an oxcart was making its way up the steep hill upon which the Quinta de Santo António stood , and its wheels creaked and groaned abominably . |
| 28 | Of course there was no rush , she thought acidly , making her way up the stairs . |
| 29 | Making her way up the stairs to One Deck , Lindsey tapped at the door of the Empress Suite . |
| 30 | As recently as January that year , the people of North Devon had been ‘ greatly alarmed ’ by three French frigates and a lugger seen making their way up the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe . |