Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |
| 4 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
| 5 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |
| 6 | A moment later , his shining , wet body landed half-way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather . |
| 11 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 12 | He returned to the passage , ran lightly up the narrow twisting staircase , checked three bedrooms , the bathroom and the toilet . |
| 13 | They caught at once , not smouldering , but a crackling , merry fire that swept hungrily up the wooden dresser , devouring candles , paper serviettes and spurting brief but splendid fireworks from a box of matches . |