Example sentences of "[adv] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 2 | The caves of Postojna and Škocjan are notable tourist attractions , and there is even a castle , Predjamski Grad , built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a sheer limestone cliff , to which access can be gained by way of a labyrinth of underground passages . |
| 3 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 4 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 5 | The walk began by following a track which climbed steeply up a narrow , twisting valley . |
| 6 | They walked and walked , at first along tiled and bleakly lit corridors under electric lighting , and then along dusty carpets in dark shuttered places , and up a stone staircase and then further up a winding wooden stair , cloudy with dark dust . |
| 7 | Jezrael dragged herself wearily up a nearby pinnacle , hoping to climb above the billowing mist so she could see something . |
| 8 | It ran straight up a wide shallow valley , with tilled fields on both sides , to a huddle of buildings . |
| 9 | Immediately after a semi-derelict farmhouse we turned left through a gate and headed straight up a stony track to Rudland Rigg . |
| 10 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 11 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 12 | She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing . |
| 13 | To , to put them nails up up a little bit on the window that 's all . |
| 14 | It seemed only minutes , desperately short minutes at that , before she was riding smoothly up a huge curved drive towards a house whose long windows were ablaze with light . |
| 15 | But come come back up a little bit |
| 16 | come back up a little bit |
| 17 | Through the swing doors , along this passage , turn right and then up a short , wide flight of stairs . |
| 18 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |