Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] north [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An umbrella stand conversation piece , largely fashioned from the remains of some unfortunate denizen of the rainforest in imperial Ilorin , but lately conquered somewhere north of Lagos , was dappled in a garish replica of its native twilight . |
| 2 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 3 | This is all the more surprising in view of the fact that the northern king , Aldfrith , was now confined largely north of the Humber , the Northumbrians preoccupied with their own problems of reconstruction following the Pictish victory at Nechtanesmere in 685 and seemingly unable even to take possession of Lindsey again . |
| 4 | The real turning point occurred just north of Châlons , during September when , in one of the bloodiest battles of human history , over 200,000 men were killed in hand-to-hand combat in less than twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | Arthur 's great fortress lies further north at Cadbury , a huge hill which still bears the remnants of a formidable fortress . |
| 6 | That road must have passed close to the place now called Chiswick , but keeping well north of the river swamps , probably along the northern boundary of the area which subsequently became known as Turnham Green . |
| 7 | A large area , part wooded and part a rocky summit , situated just north of Broombriggs on B.591 , providing a fine viewpoint over a large part of the Midlands . |
| 8 | Take Castell Coch , a Victorian fantasy straight out of the pages of ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ , situated just north of Cardiff . |
| 9 | A Dwarf attempt to recapture Red Eye Mountain fails when the Dwarf army is ambushed somewhere north of Karak Kadrin . |
| 10 | They 're heading for an English style village that 's being built just north of Tokyo . |
| 11 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 12 | The carrier Bulwark had to be sailed hastily north from Mombasa with an infantry battalion embarked to establish a forward base at Aqaba on the Red Sea , through which supplies could be despatched to Amman by road . |
| 13 | As a result of this intrusion the Nganasans were pushed farther north into the tundra , and a lasting enmity between them and the Dolgans was created . |
| 14 | The difficulty of choosing a unique line for the Front is again illustrated in this area , where two obliquely-striking reverse faults ( the Avon Thrust and Ridgeway Thrust ) are exposed further north in the area of partial Mesozoic cover and complex geology ( Kellaway and Hancock 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Filled with windswept harmonies , stripped , emotional guitar playing and the kind of plaintive , country-tinged songs that niggle you from here to the grave , the latest offering from Nebraska-born songwriter Matthew Sweet will win the favour of anyone whose tastes lie somewhere north of Gram Parsons , south of The Beatles , east of CSN&Y and west of the Pixies . |
| 16 | With the loss of the Iraqi airfields , the route was shifted further north over Iran , making the principal stops Ankara , Tehran , Bahrein , Gan , Singapore . |
| 17 | After three years there I was head-hunted by a marketing agency , D. F. & L. Associates , which was based just north of the City . |
| 18 | This was Aonach Mor , Scotland 's otherwise impressive new skiing facility based just north of Fort William . |
| 19 | A large Roman settlement existed just north of the village and the great Iron Age hill-fort of Rainsborough lies a little to the south-east . |
| 20 | He said similar numbers had crossed farther north at Bostan and Mehran , and thousands more at minor crossing points along the rugged frontier . |
| 21 | These indicate the imminence of the M11 motorway , which we should cross just north of Junction 11 ( D ) . |
| 22 | The name Fleet was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘ tidal inlet ’ and the principle sources of the water flowing into the River Fleet , were the heights of Hampstead Heath , also the grounds of Kenwood House at Highgate , all joining just north of Camden Town , and flowing south to join the River Thames , close to the Blackfriars monastery which gave its name to the bridge over the Thames at that point . |
| 23 | In two-road Dinsdale , the only crossroads was where the Roman road running straight north to Sadberge from the Tees was intersected by the east-west lane joining Stockton and Darlington . |
| 24 | It may breed well north of the Arctic Circle . |
| 25 | The Bf110 , he thought , as he flew sedately north towards Denmark , was not half the plane the 109 was . |
| 26 | Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction . |
| 27 | The cloud formed just north of the Soviet Kola Peninsula , where there are four nuclear power plants . |
| 28 | In the north of England , Theophilus Shelton , Esquire , recorded at Darrington ( a small town located just north of 53 degrees 40 minutes latitude , near the city of Leeds ) that the Sun — was reduced almost to a Point , which both in Colour and Size resembled the planet Mars ’ . |
| 29 | Mars is low in the west in Leo , the Lion , and will pass just north of the bright star Regulus on the 22nd . |
| 30 | Only Perry 's hesitancy permitted the Nez Perce to withdraw safely north up the Clearwater to Kamiah . |