Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scrambled frantically up the face of another eight-footer . |
| 2 | I crawled quietly up the slope , the grass sliding under my chest and belly , my legs straining to propel my bulk up and forward . |
| 3 | She moved cautiously up the corroded metal steps on to the catwalk and knelt beside the German , the Beretta pressed into the nape of his neck . |
| 4 | As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other . |
| 5 | To love one 's neighbour , she thought as she trudged resolutely up the Finchley Road , must surely often be an effort of the will rather than a pleasurable upsurging of emotion . |
| 6 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 7 | She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat . |
| 8 | Gravel spurted from the heels of her boots as she crawled furiously up the cliff down which she had just slid . |
| 9 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 10 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 11 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 12 | She held my hand and we walked slowly up the yard . |
| 13 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 16 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |
| 17 | ‘ I think your past is terribly romantic , ’ Madeleine said as they walked slowly up the staircase . |
| 18 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 19 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |
| 20 | He drove leisurely up the country lane and ascended the hill , before bearing left along the escarpment . |
| 21 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 22 | He has described how on that summer morning he tip-toed alone up the back-stairs to the bedroom where her body lay : |
| 23 | He went straight up the stairs and a few minutes later came down carrying a parcel of his things . |
| 24 | He went quickly up the metal staircase , leaving Amanda entangled with a group below . |
| 25 | He stamped heavily up the stone steps , through the door , along the stone-paved entrance hall . |
| 26 | He ran easily up the meadow towards the cows . |