Example sentences of "back up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked back up the wall in wonder and doubt . |
| 2 | Little Billy and Don Mini climbed back up the tree to where all the other Minpins were gathered . |
| 3 | Philip set off back up the field towards the road . |
| 4 | Once she was safely winched back up the slipway into the lifeboat shed , I spoke to some of the crew . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Later in the dusk I entertain a perplexed perfecto as I walk back up the hill to the castle , to Schloss Hartheim . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The miners scrambled back up the hill of the slanting deck and the ship steadied . |
| 9 | With one glance from the weeping girl to fitzAlan , Simon turned and strode back up the hill towards the castle . |
| 10 | John could tell that it was being driven back up the hill towards Putna . |
| 11 | Then , ‘ Mind , ’ Bella said as Marie , sweating and out of breath , struggled to shove the wheelchair back up the hill from the prom , ‘ mind , these chips are swimming in vinegar . |
| 12 | I 'd clawed my way back up the mountain of rubble like a demented animal , and returned to the turret on automatic pilot . |
| 13 | In this way , liability is passed back up the chain of distribution to the manufacturer . |
| 14 | He walked back up the side of the 14th to meet the match of Caballeros and Bugner . |
| 15 | Afterwards we climbed back up the path towards the summit . |
| 16 | His hands dropped from her shoulders , and he did not speak , merely took her hand and pulled her after him , striding back up the path at a rapid pace so that she was hard pressed to keep up . |
| 17 | I broke from them , and ran back up the slope to my mother 's house . |
| 18 | The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades . |
| 19 | Ben looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 20 | She turned , her throat constricted now , her heart pounding in her breast , and began to run back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 21 | She turned and looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 22 | Charlotte turned away and started back up the slope towards the road . |
| 23 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 24 | He resisted the temptation to turn around and look back up the street to where he knew the turn for Montgomery Street lay . |
| 25 | As Henry got through the front gate , number 60 went back up the street towards his wife and number 47 dropped , suddenly and dramatically , on to his knees in front of the red Mitsubishi . |
| 26 | Now is this a suggestion the thin end of the wedge , that we now start taking away the authority of our service committees to decide what they want to do , and have to pass it back up the line for decisions to be made , because quite frankly , I do n't want to come down here five days a week , ten hours a day for full council meetings . |
| 27 | He jumped back up the bank among the staring rabbits . |
| 28 | It was dusk when Pete finally made it back up the track to the old wooden cottage . |