Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] up the " in BNC.
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1 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
2 | Charles wandered slowly up the village street in search of his valise . |
3 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
4 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
5 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
6 | Skillfully , Gerrard maneuvered the microphone away from her and moved quickly up the aisle to the back of the audience ; and the camera , pushed by a sweating man in a stained white shirt , followed him . |
7 | Don moved briskly up the 5a pitch and quickly reached the crux , where the corner was blocked by an impending slab . |
8 | As they drew back up the stairs , piling on the pieces she threw up at them , Lawton sniffed . |
9 | She moved cautiously up the corroded metal steps on to the catwalk and knelt beside the German , the Beretta pressed into the nape of his neck . |
10 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
11 | In the C2 10km race the Trains were drawn in lane 1 and paddled right up the centre of the course towards the first turn , avoiding the jostling in the middle , reminiscent of Stephen 's lone paddle at Poznan . |
12 | An ice-cream girl sauntered slowly up the aisle with a loaded tray , up to her tits in choc-ices and orange drinks . |
13 | He drove leisurely up the country lane and ascended the hill , before bearing left along the escarpment . |
14 | Last season the whole defence seemed totally up the creek . |
15 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |
16 | Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions . |
17 | As he drove back up The Street he frowned . |
18 | As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other . |
19 | To love one 's neighbour , she thought as she trudged resolutely up the Finchley Road , must surely often be an effort of the will rather than a pleasurable upsurging of emotion . |
20 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
21 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
22 | He waited until the guard was opposite him then he stepped deliberately over the warning rail and climbed slowly up the wire . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
25 | The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades . |
26 | Cameron turned back up the Tay , glad that the harvest of names was nearly home . |
27 | I moored the boat , got out , collected the rods from the shore , and turned back up the loch . |
28 | Slowly , gingerly , one behind the other , they climbed back up the slope , loose stones and shale slithering and clattering away under their feet and pouring like noisy rain into the depths of the quarry . |
29 | Harriet climbed back up the steps . |
30 | Afterwards we climbed back up the path towards the summit . |