Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
| 2 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 3 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 4 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 5 | This 17th-century farmhouse and watermill is situated 1,100 feet up in the beautiful and rugged mountain countryside of the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 6 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 7 | After stopping the study medication all patients in both groups , continued treatment with 300 mg ranitidine at bedtime for four weeks up to the final follow up examination . |
| 8 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , England women also finished their team event with a splendid 3–0 win against Hungary and finished in fifth position , four places up on the last European Championships in Gothenburg . |
| 10 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 11 | So I dragged the sledge two fields up to the top byre , and the going was tough because of the mole hills . |
| 12 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 13 | Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States . |
| 14 | This mesmerising son et lumière actually takes place two floors up in a domed planetarium at the Cité De Science , a futuristic and eerily empty complex in the Parisian outskirts chosen by The Orb 's French label Delabel as an ideal launch pad for ‘ UF Orb ’ . |