Example sentences of "[conj] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 2 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 3 | Here a random and never-ending stream of gunslingers march across or up the screen . |
| 4 | AT one o'clock in the morning a petrol bomb shattered the window in Kathy Sellers ' front room , shooting flames across the floor and up the curtains . |
| 5 | His restless energy , barely concealed by an affable manner , carried him across Chogolisa in 1986 and up the West Face of Menlungtse two years later with Alan Hinkes . |
| 6 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 7 | As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond . |
| 8 | His real thoughts were on something else and he fell silent as they pulled away from the post Office and up the dale . |
| 9 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 10 | There was no sign of the dog as they made haste through the alders and up the field to the first hedgerow . |
| 11 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 12 | Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery . |
| 13 | Trips have already taken place to Edinburgh Castle , Luss on Loch Lomond and up the Clyde Valley . |
| 14 | He seemed to sense her mood , drawing back a little as they went through the forward lock and up the cockpit steps . |
| 15 | Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped . |
| 16 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 17 | Fall down , then fly up the pipe , use flying power to get the weight above you , go right , fall down , fall down again , go left to the main wall , jump up and throw the weight onto the button , go up the pipe , right , up on the lift and collect the weight , go left , fall down and throw the weight on the button , go down , right , up on the lift , left and up the pipe , go right ( dodge the guillotine ) and leg it to the door . |
| 18 | They carried gold and coal , machinery and books , tea and wool , cotton goods and cheap tin trays , not only to the ends of the earth but also round the coasts and up the rivers . |
| 19 | They do n't even go to the train place — they go the other way , and up the driveway and out of the station . |
| 20 | Remarkably quickly , however , the last of the human tide ran from the house entrance and up the ramps of the rigs , which were now almost packed full . |
| 21 | I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road . |
| 22 | So far Trent had managed to keep it under control but he could taste its sourness in the back of his throat and feel it in his stomach and up the back of his thighs — familiar tremblings imperceptible to an observer . |
| 23 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 24 | Remember how our first two graphs showed spaces moved both across and up the graphs to give information . |
| 25 | On the side which will hold the fixed panel , apply a thick bead of mastic around the inside of the jamb recesses , and up the joint with the jamb . |
| 26 | The stone amplifies this and the energy emerges from the ground and up the stone in the form of a spiral having seven coils . |
| 27 | They went along the old cloister and up the stone stairs . |
| 28 | The captain nodded his agreement , turned , ran to the back of the church and up the stone stairs to the safety of the tower . |
| 29 | In 1935 he was at Loe Agra , where there was more fierce fighting , and then on the Khajuri Plain and up the Khyber Pass . |
| 30 | It backed into an empty bay , and shot forward and up the ramp again . |