Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] north [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 2 | This is all the more surprising in view of the fact that the northern king , Aldfrith , was now confined largely north of the Humber , the Northumbrians preoccupied with their own problems of reconstruction following the Pictish victory at Nechtanesmere in 685 and seemingly unable even to take possession of Lindsey again . |
| 3 | That road must have passed close to the place now called Chiswick , but keeping well north of the river swamps , probably along the northern boundary of the area which subsequently became known as Turnham Green . |
| 4 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 5 | As a result of this intrusion the Nganasans were pushed farther north into the tundra , and a lasting enmity between them and the Dolgans was created . |
| 6 | The difficulty of choosing a unique line for the Front is again illustrated in this area , where two obliquely-striking reverse faults ( the Avon Thrust and Ridgeway Thrust ) are exposed further north in the area of partial Mesozoic cover and complex geology ( Kellaway and Hancock 1983 ) . |
| 7 | After three years there I was head-hunted by a marketing agency , D. F. & L. Associates , which was based just north of the City . |
| 8 | A large Roman settlement existed just north of the village and the great Iron Age hill-fort of Rainsborough lies a little to the south-east . |
| 9 | It may breed well north of the Arctic Circle . |
| 10 | Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction . |
| 11 | The cloud formed just north of the Soviet Kola Peninsula , where there are four nuclear power plants . |
| 12 | Mars is low in the west in Leo , the Lion , and will pass just north of the bright star Regulus on the 22nd . |
| 13 | Only Perry 's hesitancy permitted the Nez Perce to withdraw safely north up the Clearwater to Kamiah . |
| 14 | She could hear Maria clattering about with her water buckets in the yard and far off church bells ringing somewhere north of the Arno . |
| 15 | A pedestrian underbridge to link this walkway beneath the Musselburgh Bypass immediately north of the Asda South Roundabout has now been included . |
| 16 | It begins just north of the Mexican border and continues as far as Vancouver , sometimes winding inland , occasionally merging with the multi-laned 101 , but always providing fascinating variety . |
| 17 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |