Example sentences of "[adv] up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Queen , there is a gale and a high tide coming together , and the general view is that the women and children might be better off up in the hill-houses . ’ |
| 2 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 3 | Somewhere up in the clouds there is a faceless organization man who menaces people with punitive restrictions , stifling rule-books , unyielding systems and incomprehensible decisions . |
| 4 | And erm we were l we were stuck in the villa , right up in the mountains er , could do nothing but play cards all day and scrabble and erm all these stupid board games . |
| 5 | I made this ascent on a lowering afternoon that turned thundery , and I stood only momentarily I will admit on the bridge , as the storms brewed noisily up in the mountains all around and the lightning began . |
| 6 | It was creeping down from outside , from somewhere far to the north , well up in the hills a mile or more away . |
| 7 | ‘ He is the son of the Khedive 's third wife , so not high up in the stakes . |
| 8 | High up in the mountains . |
| 9 | Beginning as crashing streams and spectacular waterfalls high up in the mountains , these quickly converge to form raging rivers . |
| 10 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 11 | After Lescun , the valley of the Aspe grows increasingly tight and stony , a forbidding landscape well epitomized by the manmade fortress of Le Portalet , built high up in the cliffs on the left just before you come to the final French village of Urdos . |
| 12 | He had n't yet reached the Lock but there she was , sitting high up in the dunes , on a sandy shelf , half hidden among grasses and brambles . |
| 13 | Perhaps , the researchers conclude , it was largely the need to get safely from tree to tree that stimulated the evolution of such a clever ape high up in the trees . |
| 14 | And how to shoot the rooks nesting high up in the trees with a rifle . |
| 15 | Macho and Ulysse were by this time standing upright , concentrating on the movements of the colobus high up in the trees . |
| 16 | The Carabinieri station was at Bagno di Romagna , a small town high up in the Apennines on the borders of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna . |
| 17 | ‘ There are grilles high up in the walls , so whatever happens do n't make a sound or we 'll be in a cell so fast your head will spin . ’ |
| 18 | He may be placated , an acceptable tribute being pebbles doused in the blood of six young men , then placed high up in the branches of a tree so the mura-muras may reach them . |
| 19 | In fact the calls could also have been made by the Seychelles bulbul , a brown thrush-like bird with an orange-red beak which we saw feeding high up in the palms in several places . |
| 20 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
| 21 | Besides , eradication efforts in Pakistan have merely pushed the opium higher up in the hills and over the border into Afghanistan . |
| 22 | Higher up in the mountains is the system of ceques centred on the old Inca capital of Cuzco . |