Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 A corn bunting was singing halfway up a pylon , short bursts of jangling notes .
2 Indeed , their only identifiable link is Andy , currently climbing easily up the red rock .
3 He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand .
4 what by walking quickly up the kitchen and into the hall .
5 But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room .
6 Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice .
7 Then I started walking back up the field .
8 Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door .
9 A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously .
10 We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair .
11 Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully .
12 Climbing back up the one in 4 gradient requires extraordinary reserves of stamina as well .
13 Moraine boulders were piled in rounded heaps and we walked inland through tufted heaps of tussac grass , climbing well up the scree-covered slopes to picnic in a spot where we had a magnificent view of the Strait and the channels and islands further west .
14 One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them .
15 They were walking steadily up the strath , past Castle Menzies , looking unreal in its composed beauty under early Sunday sunshine , past the close-built cottages and huts of Dull which looked like scree left by a spate , heaped-up boulders , shaggy heather thatch , dykes built recently with field stones and already falling down .
16 It was sad and harrowing discovery for the Kazakh North-East ridge expedition — winding the clock back a decade to the tragic events of the morning of May 17 , 1982 and two tiny figures climbing steadily up the North-East ridge of Everest .
17 The organ started to play and Ianthe 's attention was diverted by the entry of the preacher , so that she did not notice John walking quietly up the aisle and slipping into the pew behind her .
18 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 .
19 The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed .
20 It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of .
21 She was enclosed in a darkness where ignorance had no answers and she had no questions ready to ask — wandering back up the empty driveway , kicking a loose stone for company , on this bright and gloomy morning .
22 Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage .
23 He strode on , pausing at the bottom of the meadow , looking back up the slight incline towards the barn .
24 It is organizationally unidirectional , filtering fitfully up the management hierarchy , irrespective of the extent to which it is attuned to the current preoccupations of senior management .
25 She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’
26 Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming .
27 She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway .
28 Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney .
29 A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf .
30 Above : Drifting slowly up the reef wall , curious fish surround a diver .
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