Example sentences of "[adv] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 2 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this case , all deficiencies would be notified more sensibly up the tree from user to parent , and so on . |
| 5 | Cobalt and the white-haired woman were halfway up a flight of stairs . |
| 6 | I grimaced at Ellen , then went topsides where I found the ship being steered by its automatic pilot and Thessy and Jackson Chatterton perched halfway up the mainmast with reels of rigging wire from which Thessy was fashioning a parallel set of starboard shrouds . |
| 7 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 8 | A yard or so up the line from the bomb a swivel or ring is tied in as a back stop . |
| 9 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 10 | Now this was a family I was very close to eventually when they became quite near neighbours in later years by moving to Clove Lodge , just up the pasture from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 11 | John Thwaites , one of the sons at High Birk Hatt , just up the pasture from the Hauxwells , now in his early seventies and living a happy retirement with his wife , Marie , in a cottage near Lartington , a short distance from Baldersdale , vividly recalls the painful life of William as he tilled the eighty sparse acres of his farm . |
| 12 | He ran easily up the meadow towards the cows . |
| 13 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 14 | Gorbachev declared that 1990 " could become a genuine turning point in the effort to limit and reduce arms " and that it would " open up a period of genuine [ US-Soviet ] co-operation [ aimed at building ] a world ruling out subversive action , pressure , interference and armed invasions " . |
| 15 | Gorbachev on March 30 issued an appeal to the Lithuanian Supreme Council calling for the immediate repeal of its " illegal acts " , which would " open up the possibility of discussing the whole package of problems which have arisen " . |
| 16 | This meant we could walk much further up the valley without re-tracing . |
| 17 | Could Mr Smith be another Warrior , or even further up the hierarchy of Tormentors than he 'd thought ? |
| 18 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 19 | That was opposite er further up the glen from me from |
| 20 | In addition to the changes in the numbers of cells in S phase of the cell cycle , the cumulative distribution of these cells also changed so that the population of dividing cells was spready further up the crypt in the higher fibre fed rats . |
| 21 | An enemy searchlight lit the danger and the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast on sand dunes , ‘ a dark outline showing against the sky ’ . |
| 22 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 23 | Further up the coast at Blackchurch , Frank Ramsey has taken another route that many have eyed . |
| 24 | ( b ) North Warren RSPB nature reserve of 250 acres ( leaflet from Minsmere , further up the coast towards Dunwich ) . |
| 25 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 26 | He is also confident that the club can haul themselves further up the league after a disappointing start to the season . |
| 27 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 28 | So we swung across like two trapeze artists failing an audition for Billy Smart 's circus , and headed gratefully up the glen towards the ridge . |
| 29 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 30 | For one wild , mad moment I had a picture of myself strutting glamorously up the aisle on a jumbo jet , flying to exotic faraway places . |