Example sentences of "up the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up the long slow hill from Sherborne , over the main Oxford to Bath road , there are bleak , windswept wolds , flat as a pancake , crossed at this point by a narrow and perfectly straight road . |
| 2 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 3 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |
| 4 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
| 5 | The police car , cruising comfortably up the long hill out of town , came to a halt outside the Gothic-Victorian pile of St Aloysius . |
| 6 | Jennie told Katharine to perform a 10m circle in the corner of the school , which helps bend the horse correctly , and then to shoulder-in up the long side . |
| 7 | When she was a youngster she was forever going up the long path through the convent kitchen gardens , past the briars and brambles and peering in its windows . |
| 8 | After substituting strong infantry guards at the fords , in place of the cavalry-men , almost the entire Scots mounted force formed up and rode off , in companies , southwards , up the long hill of Scremerston Brae , to disappear eventually over the ridge into deeper Northumberland . |
| 9 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 10 | He saw Celia sitting under a large cedar tree in the garden when he drove up the long drive and swung the car round into the forecourt . |
| 11 | The stout refusal , and then the shambling figure going up the long path beside the river , up to the house . |
| 12 | Billy Gorman trudged up the long path to the kitchen garden and the back of the house . |
| 13 | After twisting our way up the long trail we finally reached the North Rim just after midday , feeling like redeemed souls struggling out of a magnificent inferno . |
| 14 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 15 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
| 16 | There is a stroll up the long main street as far as the last houses of the village . |
| 17 | He drove to a favourite spot and walked , in the late afternoon , up the long flank of a hillside , in the lea of an old hedgebank . |
| 18 | Up the long stone stairs from the kitchen , into the green enclosed light of the pantry passage , then on up the next staircase , its turns mean and sudden compared with the twin sweeps of the main stairs , Nicandra plodded her careful way to Aunt Tossie 's bedroom door . |
| 19 | Like rearlights away up the long road |
| 20 | Squaring her shoulders and remembering that what lay ahead was , after all , a job interview , she followed Dr Russell up the long flight of steps at the front of the house and through a wooden latticework door on to a cool veranda where outdoor furniture splashed with warm tropical colours was invitingly arranged . |
| 21 | Ten minutes after the tail lights of the stolen Cadillac had dwindled to nothingness up the long straight highway , Curtis pulled into the deserted forecourt of the isolated gas station . |
| 22 | At appointed hours , Mandy informed her , a golf cart went up and collected luggage from the covered box in the car park , and also delivered infirm guests up the long hill if they so requested . |