Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 2 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 3 | A wide ice slope led gently up to the pass . |
| 4 | Arrangements were further complicated by the arrival of an orthodox Bachad group who demanded a separate kosher kitchen all of their own , which they maintained right up to the time of their departure to Gwrych Castle at the outbreak of war . |
| 5 | He moved slowly up by the side of the bed , and now he said , ‘ Are … are you all right ? ’ and he saw the bedclothes that she was holding under her chin rise and fall with the movement of her neck before she said , ‘ Yes . |
| 6 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 7 | By jeep and lorry we moved swiftly up through the towns and cities of middle Europe . |
| 8 | But the landscape became grander and more exciting as we drove north ; great fiords cut deep into the land , and mountain-sides of lava screes towered away up into the clouds . |
| 9 | Then after they crossed the Rhine , we moved away up to the north Holland about . |
| 10 | Ten feet in the other direction a staircase rose directly up by the side of the end wall and she made for this . |
| 11 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 12 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
| 13 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 14 | I wandered back up to the station concourse . |
| 15 | After Lescun , the valley of the Aspe grows increasingly tight and stony , a forbidding landscape well epitomized by the manmade fortress of Le Portalet , built high up in the cliffs on the left just before you come to the final French village of Urdos . |
| 16 | Wang Sau-leyan turned , indicating the ancient , rusted sign bolted high up on the trunk of a nearby juniper . |
| 17 | Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge . |
| 18 | A couple , arm-in-arm , came slowly up from the direction of the Underground . |
| 19 | Charlie strolled on up to the front like some visiting tourist who was not involved in a war . |
| 20 | the bump came right up through the table legs |
| 21 | Centuries before , according to Uncle Vernon , the water came right up into the town , and in rough weather people had to be carried ashore . |
| 22 | Before the construction of the Promenade here , in 1903 , the sands came right up to the tram track , as seen in this view of a Dreadnought approaching the terminus . |
| 23 | It was even more frightening than the chugging , and it came right up to the shelter door . |
| 24 | The lane from Bishopstow village came right up to the drive gates and ended there between stone gateposts crowned with lichened pineapples . |
| 25 | He came right up to the desk , towering over her , despite the solid barrier of wood . |
| 26 | Like a jet of blue fire one of the searchlights from the boxes played straight up into the sky . |
| 27 | He came straight up to the open window and smiled . |
| 28 | A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window . |
| 29 | So Mary said she , she came back up to the , a little while ago she said she did n't get do something |
| 30 | He gestured angrily up at the litter bin . |