Example sentences of "[adv] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ But me an' yer muvver always used ter be goin' out when we were younger , even if it was only up the Kings Arms on Saturday nights . |
| 2 | In a white exclusive bedroom , halfway up the Butcher Building . |
| 3 | We 'd drink in The Roebuck , just up the Kings Road from the shop every Saturday straight after work . |
| 4 | Paddy Smith 's 8F 48151 powers it way up the Furness mainline . |
| 5 | She had left London without seeing Newman , telling him in a letter she was staying at her sister 's place in Southwold further up the Suffolk coast . |
| 6 | ‘ And puts you further up the Ryder Cup list , ’ I pointed out . |
| 7 | It contains unrivalled 18th century English furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale , born only a few miles further up the Wharfe Valley at Otley . |
| 8 | Oxford could be reached by boats of similar size , but further up the Thames cargoes were taken over by " lightening " boats . |
| 9 | The British Cemetery is a little further up the Rua da Carreira . |
| 10 | If you want the earth to move for you , it 's best that it starts with small tremors and works its way slowly up the Richter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As the tide rose , water was forced back up the Westbury Brook and held back by the sluice gates . |
| 13 | Cameron turned back up the Tay , glad that the harvest of names was nearly home . |
| 14 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
| 15 | As far as he could see back up the Basra road were the headless date palms , lopped by the shrapnel . |
| 16 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 17 | The rain had nearly stopped , so she hurried back up the Gloucester Road for her bus . |
| 18 | Further limitation on freedom of manoeuvre , this time well up the Gulf , was introduced by Iraq . |
| 19 | Amelia Edwards , travelling independently up the Nile in 1873 , recorded : ‘ the people in dahabeeyahs [ hired boats ] despise Cook 's tourists . ’ |
| 20 | To love one 's neighbour , she thought as she trudged resolutely up the Finchley Road , must surely often be an effort of the will rather than a pleasurable upsurging of emotion . |
| 21 | We worked out a route of cafés , all the way down the Boulevard St. Michel to the river , velvet in the dark , and then up the Rue Saint Jacques to our home ground near the Pantheon . |
| 22 | Then up the Kale Water . |
| 23 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 24 | A group of American companies was reported to have instructed its vessels not to stray farther up the Gulf than the Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura . |