Example sentences of "[adv] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . ) |
| 2 | It was Mama , though , who wore it in the painting halfway up the great staircase — so that all who passed by could see it and admire . |
| 3 | He was halfway up the final flight when he heard the voiders ' whistle in the street outside , its piercing din unmistakable . |
| 4 | His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman 's boots were laced halfway up the stout legs . |
| 5 | Straightening her legs out , she leaned forward to pull the zip halfway up the duvet-like sleeping-bag which , she realised belatedly , was actually two bags opened flat and zipped together . |
| 6 | Halfway up the little tarmac driveway I trip a sensor . |
| 7 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 8 | Nara was perched safely halfway up the notched-pole ladder to the upper roof . |
| 9 | We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks . |
| 10 | Indeed , their only identifiable link is Andy , currently climbing easily up the red rock . |
| 11 | Leo had climbed laboriously up the promotional ladder of merchant banking to one of the higher rungs , earning every penny of his salary , whereas James seemed to accumulate money without even trying . |
| 12 | His ability took him rapidly up the social security tree and to Number 10 as Jim Callaghan 's Principal Private Secretary . |
| 13 | All political parties have their own reasons for pushing the quality of public services further up the political agenda . |
| 14 | Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms . |
| 15 | Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself . |
| 16 | A magistrates ' or crown court will rarely second-guess a constable and it in turn will only very occasionally be overruled on this issue further up the judicial ladder . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction . |
| 19 | By the 1960s , on the other hand , it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer — even by indulging in rural retreatism . |
| 20 | Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres . |
| 21 | As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |
| 24 | Moving like ants in a sand-trap we gasped slowly up the near-vertical rim of the secondary crater , into a storm of ash which masked the gathering dawn . |
| 25 | He steps slowly up the shallow Hollywood stretch-steps dripping like a teddy-bear out of a rinse cycle . |
| 26 | Then , with two Arabs pushing him and two pulling , he was bundled slowly up the high stones of the Pyramid to the summit . |
| 27 | Only when the last bullet had been fired and when Clint Eastwood had matter-of-factly and deftly dropped the six-shooter back into its holster , flicked the cheroot away and walked into the sunset , did the man in the old jacket and cords , legs dangling over the seat in front , get up and shamble slowly up the darkened aisle . |
| 28 | Alida slid the blue crocheted sleeves deftly up the stick-thin arms . |
| 29 | On Lock Maree Crag he climbed the heavenly line of Arial , E3 5c with George Ridge , which blasts straight up the central crackline in the massive 50-metre pitch . |
| 30 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |