Example sentences of "[conj] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These mixers , which send water to the bath or up a flexible hose to a shower head , take their supply from the bathroom hot and cold pipes . |
| 2 | or up a pole do try to climb |
| 3 | You can get to the top by cable-car from La Mongie or up a rough but bearable toll-road from the Col du Tourmalet , which is open only in July , August and September . |
| 4 | Right , but one of the things we have to remember is , and I know it 's sort of a sha , but you have the experience of last year and , that has to be shared you know to sort of cut the corners yo you 've got ta pass it back a year or up a year , whichever whatever happens and you 've made a very valid comment there and you need to make note of that that , you know somehow you have to work round Rob to get it |
| 5 | They walked and walked , at first along tiled and bleakly lit corridors under electric lighting , and then along dusty carpets in dark shuttered places , and up a stone staircase and then further up a winding wooden stair , cloudy with dark dust . |
| 6 | Go through the entrance in its high wall and up a narrow internal staircase to a viewing platform . |
| 7 | Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle . |
| 8 | The latter part of the take-off run had been into-wind and up a slight incline towards a ridge topped by trees with a fall-away of the ground on the far side . |
| 9 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 10 | I 'd ordered champagne and flowers because a honeymoon is once in a lifetime but we ended up carrying our own luggage in pitch darkness across a car park and up a huge flight of stairs . |
| 11 | A sharp turn to the south east took us past St Ives , and up a massive sand-filled estuary towards Hayle . |
| 12 | We moved through the town and up a hilly field covered with vines before we entered a forest where the branches grew close above the path . |
| 13 | " I 'll tell her myself , " he said , and the crowd separated as he turned on his heel and strode along the quay and up a flight of steep granite steps into the village . |
| 14 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 15 | He swept along the corridor and up a flight of stairs with the Englishman at his heels . |
| 16 | About an hour before midnight , Cleo and Javelot were taken across the yard and up a rickety stair on the outside of the main house . |
| 17 | They had to dismount and force their way through , past the Conduit and the Tun and up a small alleyway which led into the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
| 18 | A servant took Benjamin and me off into the main hall , past the great chamber where meals were served , and up a spiral staircase to the third floor above the solar . |
| 19 | I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow . |
| 20 | He led the way along the hall and up a winding flight of stairs to the upper level of the house . |
| 21 | It was dim and pleasantly cool inside the palazzo as the housekeeper led the way along a bare passage , past what seemed to be mainly old kitchens and store-rooms , and up a flight of stone steps . |
| 22 | His next project is to take seven mentally disabled people to Everest Base Camp and up a 22,000ft high peak . |
| 23 | They pushed their way through the hall and up a stone-flagged passageway , past grated windows where poor debtors shook their begging bowls through the bars and whined for alms . |