Example sentences of "[adv] up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 2 | Nara was perched safely halfway up the notched-pole ladder to the upper roof . |
| 3 | In January 1987 , a clicking signal at 37kHz was detected coming from a band 3ft in width halfway up the tallest stone in the circle . |
| 4 | A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather . |
| 5 | Leo had climbed laboriously up the promotional ladder of merchant banking to one of the higher rungs , earning every penny of his salary , whereas James seemed to accumulate money without even trying . |
| 6 | Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms . |
| 7 | Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself . |
| 8 | First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education . |
| 9 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 10 | Moving like ants in a sand-trap we gasped slowly up the near-vertical rim of the secondary crater , into a storm of ash which masked the gathering dawn . |
| 11 | Then , with two Arabs pushing him and two pulling , he was bundled slowly up the high stones of the Pyramid to the summit . |
| 12 | On Lock Maree Crag he climbed the heavenly line of Arial , E3 5c with George Ridge , which blasts straight up the central crackline in the massive 50-metre pitch . |
| 13 | He strode on , pausing at the bottom of the meadow , looking back up the slight incline towards the barn . |
| 14 | Isabel looked back up the slight incline to the castle . |
| 15 | just then they saw the lights come hurtling back up the rough track towards them . |
| 16 | Marie , on her way back up the long flight of steps from the prom , watched them laughing together . |
| 17 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |
| 18 | They collected their horses from the stables and were soon pounding their way back up the cobbled streets of Edinburgh to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 19 | He led Anna back up the gaunt staircase to the dining-room Mr Mulgrove had shown her when she came for interview . |
| 20 | Transport to Entlebuch railway station is by the line Bern-Langnau-Luzern ( or Thun-Konolfingen-luzern ) Then a postbus from Entlebuch ( Official Timetable No 460.75 ) takes walkers well up the Entlen valley beyond Entlenmatt , leaving them with a 6km ( 3 ½miles ) ascent to walk to the pass . |
| 21 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 22 | Crowfield is half-way up the south-eastern edge of Wattisham 's north-easterly ‘ panhandle ’ , so I drew a small circle at the appropriate point and joined it and Gransden with a straight line . |
| 23 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 24 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 25 | Moving speedily up the Left Bank of the river , General Riemann 's 22nd Reserve Division joined up with von Zwehl 's men , to effect a neat pincer on the French hemmed within the bend of the river at Regneville . |