Example sentences of "up [prep] the hills " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the worry at the back of her mind , she sat down beside her patient and said gently , ‘ As I sat having my breakfast to the sound of church bells , with the sun coming up behind the hills , I think I felt the sort of affinity you must have with Samana . |
| 2 | During the days that followed our plans to backpack up into the hills had to be curtailed because of the weather , but to compensate there was the pleasure of watching Nathan explore the Arctic . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the Pennine Way , ’ said Tumbleweed , pointing up into the hills . |
| 4 | You drove east , up into the hills . |
| 5 | Every month they drove up into the hills , their sheet folded neatly in the trunk , their lust , by contrast , scarcely containable . |
| 6 | The car left the autostrada and the bright new factories dotted about the valley and took a narrow , winding road up into the hills on the right . |
| 7 | The next day we drive up into the hills two hours from Kingston to see Bob 's tomb in his village birthplace of Nine Miles , St Ann 's parish . |
| 8 | We managed to flee across the river and up into the hills . |
| 9 | The peaty brown moor land rises up into the hills and makes for rough walking . |
| 10 | The hunting season for the palombe is short but deadly , and if you go up into the hills while it is on , the local men will be crouched there in their camouflage jackets , or lined up at stands along the roads , their shotguns aimed hungrily out over the valley . |
| 11 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |
| 12 | We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks . |
| 13 | There are several of those ancient fortified lake dwellings , which we call crannogs , most of them to be found in the northern half of the island , some of them in lochs well up into the hills . |
| 14 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 15 | The police car held the wet roads , even the treacherous lanes that snaked up into the hills . |
| 16 | They drove north out of Burford , down over the old packhorse-bridge across the river Windrush , then up into the hills beyond . |
| 17 | Clocaenog village he left at a distance on his left hand , and wound his way up into the hills again . |
| 18 | Some days when the city heat was too oppressive they drove out into the wild Andalucían countryside , high up into the hills where the air was sweet and pure . |
| 19 | ‘ Instead of going straight back , why not drive up into the hills and show Ashley the view ? ’ |
| 20 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 21 | Besides , eradication efforts in Pakistan have merely pushed the opium higher up in the hills and over the border into Afghanistan . |
| 22 | The trips include a great party night called ‘ Cova Rava ’ , a BBQ at La Siesta up in the hills , a beach party , Sixties night , ‘ Wet and wild ’ and of course , the hilarious Reps ' Cabaret plus lots more . |
| 23 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 24 | ‘ Way up in the hills … ’ |
| 25 | My mother 's house up in the hills is so , ’ he searched for the word , ‘ away … ’ |
| 26 | Up … up in the hills . ’ |
| 27 | Up in the hills are the gull colonies , herring gull and lesser black-backed , on the shores of inland windswept lochs . |
| 28 | Up in the hills to our right lies Nevill Holt , now only a church , a park and a great house . |
| 29 | Up in the hills , at the place of marching water , I found Ashley Watt and one of her more exotic cousins . |
| 30 | I had , over the course of the morning , already gulped down about a gallon of teeth-achingly cold stream-water at various points up in the hills , but the traditional Scottish hangover treatment was probably just what I needed . |