Example sentences of "up [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees .
2 Safe in the central eye of the storm , they had ten or fifteen minutes in which to reach the comparative safety of the track leading up through the rain forest to the President 's cabin .
3 To the left is Tramezaïgues , a hamlet said because of its position on a northern slope to get no sun at all for three months in the winter and from where a very bad road leads up through the pine forests to the Hospice de Rioumajou , and one of the numerous old mule tracks into Spain .
4 Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions .
5 Another remarked that once one had seen the ostriches ( he meant the ospreys at Loch Garten ) , the Aviemore Centre , and been up in the chair lift to Cairn Gorm there ‘ was n't anything else to do ’ .
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