Example sentences of "[noun] up the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On their slow progress back up the road Hyacinth lagged behind them , pausing more and more often and holding her belly .
2 Built by Colla MacDonnell in the sixteenth century , it clings to a narrow promontory , and although there is not much left of the castle itself , its magnificent position is worth the long haul back up the cliff path .
3 Chairman Judith Billingham said yesterday : ‘ Wales is one of the highest drinking regions of the UK and about half way up the league table for Europe .
4 This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful .
5 Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons ' front garden .
6 ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’
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