Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty metres or so up the slope , she began to waver and looked ready to collapse again . |
| 2 | A yard or so up the line from the bomb a swivel or ring is tied in as a back stop . |
| 3 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 4 | If during the waggle the clubhead feels to be not at the end of the shaft but an inch or so up the shaft , in a waggle you would never be able to feel the exact position of the head coming into impact . |
| 5 | He had moved a mile or so up the valley to live at Bullhouse Lodge and work at the nearby corn mill . |
| 6 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
| 7 | They could make their way over that and eventually up the cliff to the eleventh green of the golf-course , to the gate in the garden wall . |
| 8 | Suddenly the sequence was interrupted by a crash , an oath and an answering oath , under cover of which Amiss began to climb silently and wearily up the next staircase . |
| 9 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 10 | We set off , with our rucksacks , and halfway up the farmhouse had disappeared into the mist . |
| 11 | Universities such as Lancaster are going steadily and rapidly up the poll and are doing very well indeed . |
| 12 | It was a simple route , left on to the Strasse der Einheit , up to the Platz der Einheit , across the vast square and straight up the 97 . |
| 13 | Behind and back up the fairway Andy was waiting for Des to play first from behind the cross bunkers . |
| 14 | As he journeyed on horseback through Palestine and then up the coast of southern Lebanon in the 1830s , he was an adventurer , staying overnight with the governor of Tyre , crossing the snows of the Chouf mountain chain to the gentleness of the Bekaa Valley where he sketched the great temples of the Roman city of Heliopolis . |
| 15 | Finally we reached Porto that afternoon , by flying VFR through the valley route to the coast as the bases rose in the afternoon , and then up the coast at 1,000 feet , just below the base of the broken cumulus , with spectacular views of Porto , before nipping inland to the field to park next to the German aircraft — which we were relieved to see had landed safely . |
| 16 | Has a characteristic song , with a series of cooing or bubbling notes that run down and then up the scale . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He clambered over the shingle at the bottom of the cliff and then up the cliff itself , arriving at the eleventh green . |
| 19 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 20 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 21 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 22 | Doggedly , they fly higher and higher up the flanks of the mountains towards piles of immense granite boulders that lie close to the summits . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With great courage she fought her way past Forgive 'N Forget , but halfway up the run-in Wayward Lad was still two lengths up . |
| 25 | But further up the coast , the land that is removed may be re-deposited . |
| 26 | But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction . |
| 27 | In the protected area at the bottom of the hill the wind was gentle , but further up the slope it picked up considerably to 16–17 miles an hour . |
| 28 | Oxford could be reached by boats of similar size , but further up the Thames cargoes were taken over by " lightening " boats . |
| 29 | All the time the train is carrying us slowly but surely up the French coast . |
| 30 | Cotton mills were built and worked at Airton and Kirkby Malham : by the side of the path up Pikedaw Hill is the entrance to a disused lead-mine , while further up the dale is the old smelt mill chimney on Malham Moor . |