Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’ |
| 2 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
| 3 | When they hit the rock there was a huge crash , and white water flew everywhere , thirty , forty metres up over the Longstone rock . |
| 4 | Cable cars and chair lifts carry you effortlessly 7,000 feet up into the mountains , where there are sun-soaked terraces , with entrancing panoramas of the mountains . |
| 5 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 6 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 7 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 8 | After two months in kennels they move on to the dog supply unit for 11 months , during which time they will be required to train at least six dogs up to the blindfold standard , and pass the guide dog trainer examination . |
| 9 | A formal post-sample forecast statistic for the six quarters up to the end of 1988 was obtained using the Salkever ( 1976 ) dummy variable analogue of the Chow test . |
| 10 | However McCann , who got to within 8 seconds of him last Saturday in the Movilla 10 , started very quickly and at the turn , which he reached in 9.30 , he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 11 | McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 12 | McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 13 | His grin wide , he slapped Jack on the back and peered six inches up into the bridegroom 's handsome red face . |
| 14 | Some may not find suitable lodging until they get 4,500 feet up in the mountain . |
| 15 | In the event , the shares were expected to open two or three dollars up on the $79.615 close to Monday trading . |
| 16 | instinctively out to Barber , three men up around the edge of the area . |
| 17 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 18 | Slithering through damp meadows at night , wriggling over rocks and up waterfalls , even finding their way into mountain streams , ten thousand feet up in the Alps — in these resting spots , they settle down and live for many years . |
| 19 | Most villages are perched over ten thousand feet up in the Himalayas . |
| 20 | Farnborough is the highest village in Berkshire , 720 feet up in the downs , and straddles the most beautiful road in that county which leads — without a wire or cable to be seen — through open downland to West Ilsley . |
| 21 | Most campesinos live between two thousand and four thousand metres up in the mountains , in the harshest land , and still they are exploited . |
| 22 | In the gents of these there would sometimes be those urinals — you know the ones , shaped like a maiden 's hand — with one positioned for kids ten centimetres up the wall and not sixty centimetres up like the rest . |
| 23 | The northernmost town is Kaitaia , but there is still a further 80 miles up to the tip of the island at Cape Reinga . |
| 24 | We take two sharp lefts and stop again , on the main road fifty yards up from the road we left him . |
| 25 | Ten feet up at the threshold the throttles are closed and a token flare made almost incredibly close to the tarmac — the sensation of speed quite exhilarating at 120 knots and two feet — when the soft , forgiving kneeling-knuckle undercarriage absorbs any small residual descent-rate to give a smooth gentle touchdown . |
| 26 | The provision of meteorological regular services forecasting winds and turbulence , not to mention sunspot activity with its radiation hazards more than ten miles up in the stratosphere and the air traffic control problems of introducing this vehicle into the airspace still filled with less sophisticated aircraft , is another area in which the regulating authorities have shown great imagination and flexibility in their routine day-to-day work . |
| 27 | Think of jumping off a platform 3 miles up in the sky , dropping to earth at 120 mph and all the way down , performing the spectacular . |
| 28 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 29 | Chief Supt Pauline Clare , 44 , is one of five candidates up for the Merseyside job . |
| 30 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |