Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest . |
| 3 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 4 | Charles wandered slowly up the village street in search of his valise . |
| 5 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 6 | As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks . |
| 7 | Indeed , their only identifiable link is Andy , currently climbing easily up the red rock . |
| 8 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 9 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 10 | This is a very painful condition , and there is a risk that the seed responsible may track further up the leg . |
| 11 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 12 | what by walking quickly up the kitchen and into the hall . |
| 13 | But she has gone ; and they fly pell-mell up the hedgerow , frisking , chattering and perching where they will . |
| 14 | Skillfully , Gerrard maneuvered the microphone away from her and moved quickly up the aisle to the back of the audience ; and the camera , pushed by a sweating man in a stained white shirt , followed him . |
| 15 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 16 | Don moved briskly up the 5a pitch and quickly reached the crux , where the corner was blocked by an impending slab . |
| 17 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
| 18 | Send back up the hierarchy any work which significantly diverts you from the agreed priorities . |
| 19 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
| 20 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 21 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 22 | As they drew back up the stairs , piling on the pieces she threw up at them , Lawton sniffed . |
| 23 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 24 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 25 | Climbing back up the one in 4 gradient requires extraordinary reserves of stamina as well . |
| 26 | She moved cautiously up the corroded metal steps on to the catwalk and knelt beside the German , the Beretta pressed into the nape of his neck . |
| 27 | This makes it very difficult for the mains to be contaminated by dirty water ( from a bath , say ) being sucked back up the mains — a phenomenon known as back siphonage . |
| 28 | Moraine boulders were piled in rounded heaps and we walked inland through tufted heaps of tussac grass , climbing well up the scree-covered slopes to picnic in a spot where we had a magnificent view of the Strait and the channels and islands further west . |
| 29 | At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen . |
| 30 | One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them . |