Example sentences of "far up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 2 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 3 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 4 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 5 | At least it was in a courtroom , where in Perry Mason or LA Law the witnesses cracked and the truth came out ; at least it might sort out whether the central figure was hero or villain , and point to how far up the culpability went . |
| 6 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 7 | I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library . |
| 8 | If you do n't want to go as far up the scale as typesetting then it does n't really matter what imaging method you use ; PCL , ACE , PostScript or a PostScript clone — so long as you do n't try to mix and match the two |
| 9 | A fundamental control is the degree of instability of the reacting system , or in our mechanical analogy ( Fig. 6.4 ) , how far up the slope our ball is located . |
| 10 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |
| 11 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 12 | Considering ( i ) the rock structures , then the several transport costs — ( ii ) for fuel , ( iii ) for raw materials , and ( iv ) to markets , why did the owners decide to place their blast-furnaces mainly in the north east , far up the valleys , as at Merthyr Tydfil and Ebbw Vale ? |
| 13 | What arguments , or reasons , would the directors have put forward for closing a dozen old works far up the valleys , at 300 m altitude , and building two new ones on the coast , at Port Talbot and , perhaps , at Cardiff ? |
| 14 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 15 | He will be taken far up the ladder . ’ |