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Example sentences of "[adv] up the hill " in BNC.

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1	Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions .
2	But then the majority of hill-walking is done in less than satisfactory weather , and somehow , no matter how foul and inclement it is , you can not wait to get back up the hills and do it again .
3	I asked , as we plodded back up the hill , she clinging to my arm , pausing now and then for breath .
4	Then , ‘ Mind , ’ Bella said as Marie , sweating and out of breath , struggled to shove the wheelchair back up the hill from the prom , ‘ mind , these chips are swimming in vinegar .
5	Then , the other night , it managed to push its way back up the hill .
6	The miners scrambled back up the hill of the slanting deck and the ship steadied .
7	Later in the dusk I entertain a perplexed perfecto as I walk back up the hill to the castle , to Schloss Hartheim .
8	With one glance from the weeping girl to fitzAlan , Simon turned and strode back up the hill towards the castle .
9	John could tell that it was being driven back up the hill towards Putna .
10	He gave it to the driver of the taxi he found outside , who whisked him back up the hill again , back through time to a medieval alley smelling of woodsmoke and urine .
11	A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously .
12	And then they have to carry them all the way back up the hill !
13	They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times .