Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of American companies was reported to have instructed its vessels not to stray farther up the Gulf than the Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura . |
| 2 | An enemy searchlight lit the danger and the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast on sand dunes , ‘ a dark outline showing against the sky ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd simply walk straight up the wall of your house . ’ |
| 4 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 5 | Then I slipped over and did a leisurely backstroke back up the pool . |
| 6 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 7 | In this case the high-frequency waves pass through the medium , are reflected off the specimen and then bounce back up the sapphire rod to the transducer , which converts the returning sound into an electrical signal . |
| 8 | Quiss stamped his foot in frustration , then marched back up the steps to retrieve the rest of his furs and make his way back to the castle 's upper reaches . |
| 9 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 10 | Once she was safely winched back up the slipway into the lifeboat shed , I spoke to some of the crew . |
| 11 | Without another word he too went back up the bank and vanished into the wood . |