Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that scramble up the cliff ? |
| 2 | It is best reached by continuing along the road , now unenclosed , until near Leck Fell House when a steep scramble up the hillside ends in the company of the three massive cairns that will have plagued the curiosity since they first came in sight earlier . |
| 3 | We take our seats half way up the stalls . |
| 4 | In fact , Capital Radio is only half way up the tower . |
| 5 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 6 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 7 | All my notions — notions of good or evil , of pleasant and unpleasant , of funny and serious , of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle class notions ; my taste in books and food and clothes , my sense of honour , my table manners , my turns of speech , my accent , even the characteristic movements of my body , are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche half way up the social hierarchy … to get outside the class racket I have got to suppress not merely my private snobbishness , but most of my other tastes and prejudices as well . |
| 8 | The border to Finland is half way up the 30-mile ( 48km ) long canal and the canal office is at the eighth of the nine locks . |
| 9 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 10 | Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons ' front garden . |
| 11 | In one bound he had left his seat and was half way up the ladder ; I was close behind . |
| 12 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |
| 13 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 14 | Fix around the rocket with royal icing : one at the base , one half way up the main part of the body , and one at the very top . |
| 15 | Chairman Judith Billingham said yesterday : ‘ Wales is one of the highest drinking regions of the UK and about half way up the league table for Europe . |
| 16 | It squealed and dashed unhurt into the corn , and she trotted her st'lyan back up the road again , laughing . |
| 17 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
| 18 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 19 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 20 | The snow improved as the slope steepened and I made good time up the 100 metres to the ridge top and along to the ‘ summit ’ . |
| 21 | Small back streets run higgledy-piggledy back up the hill from the golden , sandy beach and the main prom , and these contain a jumble of small bars , Spanish and seafood restaurants , Bodegas with wine barrels stretching from floor to ceiling , and wonderful shops selling leather , shoes and denim at remarkable prices . |
| 22 | The next step up the range is the Tobago or TB10 which is a stylish fixed gear touring aircraft . |