Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant we could walk much further up the valley without re-tracing . |
| 2 | I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library . |
| 3 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 4 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 5 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 6 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 7 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 8 | The group of circles formed a genus , and the genera could similarly be arranged in circles , and so on up the scale to higher groupings . |
| 9 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
| 10 | So I would suggest that regional and sub- regional policies need to occur much higher up the list and er perhaps I would put them at number one if not number two . |
| 11 | It avoids one of the most familiar classroom situations in the primary school — the child who comes to you for a word which is already written down higher up the page . |
| 12 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 13 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 14 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |
| 15 | Johannsen was twenty metres to her left , only a little further up the cliff than her : they both had some climbing still to do . |
| 16 | The British Cemetery is a little further up the Rua da Carreira . |
| 17 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 18 | Somewhere further up the coast . ’ |
| 19 | He landed down wind ( not that there was much wind ) , but he landed very carefully and taxied with his tail up to where I was standing , roughly about halfway or a little more up the runway . |
| 20 | In this case , all deficiencies would be notified more sensibly up the tree from user to parent , and so on . |
| 21 | We are yeah we had video at number three about three or four years back , and we thought that was great and we never dreamed of going any further up the charts you know so it 's great that this one 's gone to number one . |
| 22 | She and the cart were half-covered by the shadow of the buildings on her left ; but further back up the road , walking deep in the shadow , was a young woman holding a child by the hand . |
| 23 | Philip set off back up the field towards the road . |
| 24 | He set off back up the bank . |
| 25 | Duncan got behind the Golf and pushed it to prove it would move , then set off back up the slope to get the truck . |
| 26 | The painting is awkwardly and laxly structured but now the contours of many of the compositional elements have been freely and insistently opened up into each other so that the eye is led quickly not only into depth but also steeply up the picture surface , a premonition of things to come . |
| 27 | Slightly further up the scale are the low-end image-editing applications . |
| 28 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |
| 29 | And that being so , he could probably even up the score a little with the man who posted five coarse G notes for his capture . |
| 30 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |