Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A corn bunting was singing halfway up a pylon , short bursts of jangling notes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | what by walking quickly up the kitchen and into the hall . |
| 4 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 5 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
| 6 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
| 7 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 8 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 9 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 10 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 11 | One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them . |
| 12 | They were walking steadily up the strath , past Castle Menzies , looking unreal in its composed beauty under early Sunday sunshine , past the close-built cottages and huts of Dull which looked like scree left by a spate , heaped-up boulders , shaggy heather thatch , dykes built recently with field stones and already falling down . |
| 13 | It was sad and harrowing discovery for the Kazakh North-East ridge expedition — winding the clock back a decade to the tragic events of the morning of May 17 , 1982 and two tiny figures climbing steadily up the North-East ridge of Everest . |
| 14 | The organ started to play and Ianthe 's attention was diverted by the entry of the preacher , so that she did not notice John walking quietly up the aisle and slipping into the pew behind her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed . |
| 17 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 18 | It is organizationally unidirectional , filtering fitfully up the management hierarchy , irrespective of the extent to which it is attuned to the current preoccupations of senior management . |
| 19 | She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’ |
| 20 | Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming . |
| 21 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 22 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
| 23 | Above : Drifting slowly up the reef wall , curious fish surround a diver . |
| 24 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 25 | Here , cars are reversing back up a slip road because the way ahead is blocked . |
| 26 | However that may be , in 1807 Captain Mitchell was certainly commanding the sea fencibles at Shoreham , and the next year he was promoted rear-admiral of the blue , moving steadily up the grades by seniority until he became vice-admiral of the white ( Nelson 's highest rank ) in 1813 : he was also appointed KCB before his death , which took place at his house in Camberwell Grove , Surrey , in 1816 . |
| 27 | I had seen the donkeys plodding reluctantly up the escarpment to fetch water miles away . |
| 28 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 29 | William sat tight-lipped , looking in his rear-view mirror at the argument continuing further up the slip . |
| 30 | The Route : A thin crack running straight up the pass to left of the obvious ‘ rainbow ’ feature . |