Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that scramble up the cliff ? |
| 2 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 3 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |
| 4 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 5 | The border to Finland is half way up the 30-mile ( 48km ) long canal and the canal office is at the eighth of the nine locks . |
| 6 | We take our seats half way up the stalls . |
| 7 | Chairman Judith Billingham said yesterday : ‘ Wales is one of the highest drinking regions of the UK and about half way up the league table for Europe . |
| 8 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 9 | In fact , Capital Radio is only half way up the tower . |
| 10 | Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons ' front garden . |
| 11 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 12 | In one bound he had left his seat and was half way up the ladder ; I was close behind . |
| 13 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |