Example sentences of "[conj] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 2 | In the late seventies and early eighties , travel to Cosford could sometimes be likened to a cross-polar expedition as athletes and spectators battled through blizzards and packed snow , up or down the M6 and along the A5 , or up the A41 from Wolverhampton . |
| 3 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 4 | Here a random and never-ending stream of gunslingers march across or up the screen . |
| 5 | You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences . |
| 6 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 7 | When fallen on , the wedge is retained in the groove and forced against the nut and up the incline . |
| 8 | AT one o'clock in the morning a petrol bomb shattered the window in Kathy Sellers ' front room , shooting flames across the floor and up the curtains . |
| 9 | On reaching the crossroads , we moved quickly to the right , and up the very dusty road leading to the village . |
| 10 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 11 | They do n't even go to the train place — they go the other way , and up the driveway and out of the station . |
| 12 | Now on to Bradford on Avon , the ancient wool town , and up the steep hills lined with stone houses , most of which seem to be antique shops . |
| 13 | FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away . |
| 14 | Undertown was designed as a summer holiday house , facing south towards the dunes and up the Camel Estuary , with a view across the golf links to the church of St Enodoc and Brae Hill beyond . |
| 15 | His real thoughts were on something else and he fell silent as they pulled away from the post Office and up the dale . |
| 16 | Replacing the bowls , they pedalled on down the steep hill and up the next . |
| 17 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 18 | In 1935 he was at Loe Agra , where there was more fierce fighting , and then on the Khajuri Plain and up the Khyber Pass . |
| 19 | Full day by coach and train to Zermatt via the Simplon Pass , and up the rack railway to the Matterhorn . |
| 20 | So far Trent had managed to keep it under control but he could taste its sourness in the back of his throat and feel it in his stomach and up the back of his thighs — familiar tremblings imperceptible to an observer . |
| 21 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 22 | He turned right into Caldecott Road , left into Howard 's Avenue , right on to Mainwaring Road and up the wide thoroughfare that led to Wimbledon Hill . |
| 23 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 24 | The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube . |
| 25 | I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road . |
| 26 | The stone amplifies this and the energy emerges from the ground and up the stone in the form of a spiral having seven coils . |
| 27 | Śa kar and Kānchho were down below steering them out of the sheep-pen , round and up the wide stone staircase . |
| 28 | They turned back into the swirling smoke , and up the ladder to the superstructure , regaining the door to the wireless hut . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fall down , then fly up the pipe , use flying power to get the weight above you , go right , fall down , fall down again , go left to the main wall , jump up and throw the weight onto the button , go up the pipe , right , up on the lift and collect the weight , go left , fall down and throw the weight on the button , go down , right , up on the lift , left and up the pipe , go right ( dodge the guillotine ) and leg it to the door . |