Example sentences of "[adv] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing painfully up monolithic shafts of blue crystal . |
| 2 | 7. aria lived just up Eastern Avenue — let's face it , half the world lives up Eastern Avenue — in Redbridge , in one of those huge roadside vicarage-like houses which has had to be turned into a rest home for the elderly because no one else could afford to pay the rates . |
| 3 | I 'm not up next Wednesday . |
| 4 | It is normally said that as one goes further up this ascent of languages , the code becomes progressively more like a natural language such as English . |
| 5 | you pulled it down ad you got the various size bottles in this we got half and one ounce , here two ounce , further up three ounce . |
| 6 | Yes , I am indeed a Labour member of this Local Authority , and I certainly would argue that both national and local governments need at local government level need to take much more up front stances about the encouragement of equal opportunities for women , both in the labour market and in all educational and social spheres . |
| 7 | Both versions cane be used singly in the centre or asymmetrically up one side . |
| 8 | Breitenstein ( 1980 : 193 ) gives three different senses for have in its use with the bare infinitive : ( a ) I 'll have him clear up this mess ( an instruction ) ( b ) I wo n't have you say that ( a strong wish ) ( c ) I never had such a thing happen to me ( an experience ) |
| 9 | Follow a track and turn right up another drive to the eastern side of the dam . |
| 10 | Its straight up that side — ’ he waved his clipboard at the hill — 'but it twists this side . |
| 11 | But they 're still alive and spitting , and here then is the third album from a band who have found themselves paddle-less up more creeks than they 'd care to count and have emerged from their sojourn in the wilderness battered but staunchly defiant and with a record more cohesive and infinitely more glorious than anyone could have hoped . |
| 12 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't fear that , Miss Mackenzie ; I 'm convinced you 'll be back up that ladder before the ambulance has had time to drive away . ’ |
| 14 | I see them walking back up Great Scotland Yard afterwards , with the historian lost in thought and Summerchild asking him solicitously if he would like to view the Croydon or Kilburn premises after all . |
| 15 | So I phoned the police and I said , Charlie went away last yesterday , I says , and he has n't turned back up this morning . |
| 16 | A glutinous substance farts out fatty bubbles and burbles its way lazily up highlighted stem tubes . |
| 17 | She tore across the dealing room , then up three flights of stairs , screaming that she had closed Sir Willie , and that she had made several thousand pounds in that one day . |
| 18 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 19 | Though before they could reach the restaurant they had to first go down some concrete steps , and then up several flights more . |
| 20 | higher up that mousie climbs The |
| 21 | ‘ You come a step farther up that ladder and I 'll run you through with this fork . ’ |
| 22 | They mounted their horses and made their way quietly up snow-packed Billingsgate , turning left into the approaches to London Bridge . |