Example sentences of "[noun pl] and up the " in BNC.

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1 He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part .
2 Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring .
3 Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck .
4 She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail .
5 He deliberately pushed his chair so that it fell over , walked down the stage steps and up the gangway of the auditorium .
6 Boatmen plied their trade down the Trent to Stockwith , Keadby and other river ports and up the Idle to Bawtry , while steam packets provided regular services to Hull , Newcastle , King 's Lynn , and London , and intermediate places .
7 Undertown was designed as a summer holiday house , facing south towards the dunes and up the Camel Estuary , with a view across the golf links to the church of St Enodoc and Brae Hill beyond .
8 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 .
9 Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history .
10 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 .
11 They drove through the gates and up the avenue of ancient lime trees .
12 There was no sign of the dog as they made haste through the alders and up the field to the first hedgerow .
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