Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved cautiously up the corroded metal steps on to the catwalk and knelt beside the German , the Beretta pressed into the nape of his neck . |
| 2 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |
| 3 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |
| 4 | A moment later , his shining , wet body landed half-way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing . |
| 5 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They caught at once , not smouldering , but a crackling , merry fire that swept hungrily up the wooden dresser , devouring candles , paper serviettes and spurting brief but splendid fireworks from a box of matches . |