Example sentences of "[adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 2 | For what seems like an eternity ( but is in fact nearer ten seconds ) the unaccustomed g crushes me into the seat , my peripheral vision suffering as the nose climbs inexorably up the sky . |
| 3 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 4 | She was only up the town . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 8 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 9 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 10 | Although the soil of Craven was good loam , little corn was grown , even less up the dales ; oats alone could withstand the damp climate and formed the staple food of the common people . |
| 11 | In this case , all deficiencies would be notified more sensibly up the tree from user to parent , and so on . |
| 12 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 13 | With great courage she fought her way past Forgive 'N Forget , but halfway up the run-in Wayward Lad was still two lengths up . |
| 14 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 15 | Halfway up the cliff , where the steep path broadened , there was a small cast-iron seat . |
| 16 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
| 17 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 18 | Halfway up the aisle the Ted turned his head again to the packed house and in the same pained voice of injured innocence repeated , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 19 | I grimaced at Ellen , then went topsides where I found the ship being steered by its automatic pilot and Thessy and Jackson Chatterton perched halfway up the mainmast with reels of rigging wire from which Thessy was fashioning a parallel set of starboard shrouds . |
| 20 | The soot would be everywhere — halfway up the tunnel sides , but mostly on me , and certainly none where it was intended . |
| 21 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 22 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 23 | As Huy came closer , he noticed something glinting in the half light , not quite halfway up the door and towards its centre . |
| 24 | In a white exclusive bedroom , halfway up the Butcher Building . |
| 25 | Halfway up the ridge another farm , |
| 26 | The body of Edward Stone , 27 , an experienced climber who lived locally , was found halfway up the peak . |
| 27 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 28 | We set off , with our rucksacks , and halfway up the farmhouse had disappeared into the mist . |
| 29 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 30 | Finally a continuous length of baler twine is threaded under the legs and over the top , pulled quite tight and tied halfway up the load . |