Example sentences of "up through the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compadrazgo relations are set up through the ritual sponsorship of the church system of appointing godparents for children . |
| 2 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 3 | The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw . |
| 4 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 5 | A hastily assembled group of the famous 75s had been pushed forward on to Froideterre , and its lethal barrage had given one of the fresh divisions of XX Corps just enough time to move up through the ebbing debris of de Bonneval 's 37th African Division and establish a firm line from Bras to Haudromont . |
| 6 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
| 7 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 8 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 9 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 10 | Perhaps with concern growing about contaminants and residues in our drinking water , the holy wells may come into their own again , although many have dried up through the permanent lowering of the water table . |