Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees . |
| 2 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 3 | First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education . |
| 4 | His ability took him rapidly up the social security tree and to Number 10 as Jim Callaghan 's Principal Private Secretary . |
| 5 | He shrugged , backing the car out of the parking space to turn it deftly up the narrow unpaved path leading up from the river . |