Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke should be drawn cleanly up the flue . |
| 2 | No details of attribute unc have been specified , so it could be considered as an external influence on the assembly , termed " car sub-space " , and thus be reflected further up the system . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'll be coming straight up the middle , wo n't they ? ’ |
| 4 | He will be taken far up the ladder . ’ |
| 5 | They were walking steadily up the strath , past Castle Menzies , looking unreal in its composed beauty under early Sunday sunshine , past the close-built cottages and huts of Dull which looked like scree left by a spate , heaped-up boulders , shaggy heather thatch , dykes built recently with field stones and already falling down . |
| 6 | That , and being taken further up the reef , for three to four days , is the real bonus — highly recommended . |
| 7 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 8 | Four guylines are attached halfway up the pole sleeve to storm-lash the tent — great for very high winds . |
| 9 | Over 4500km of roads , four towns , an airport , railway , a port , schools and hospitals were built , the pulp mill came from Japan and was floated thence up the Amazon . |
| 10 | Sampson feels ‘ a very great aversion ’ to Slinkton as soon as he sees him : ‘ His hair , which was elaborately brushed and oiled , was parted straight up the middle ; and he presented this parting to the clerk , exactly … as if he had said , in so many words : ‘ You must take me , if you please , my friend , just as I show myself . |
| 11 | The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed . |
| 12 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 13 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 14 | The body of Edward Stone , 27 , an experienced climber who lived locally , was found halfway up the peak . |