Example sentences of "and up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Again , his fingers teased her , running a path of torturing heat about her thigh , and up over the jutting bone of her hip , close — far too close ! — to that part of her where the aching need had its centre . |
| 2 | ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches . |
| 3 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
| 4 | But the pull on his soulless mind was too strong now , and he felt himself being drawn up and up into a vast emptiness , and into the endless skies of infinity . |
| 5 | We trooped off round the back of the church and up into a small raised garden where there were indeed some benches . |
| 6 | From Mynydd Ddu the Way pushes northwards through the town of Llandovery and up into the Cambrian Mountains , passing close to the shores of the huge reservoir , Llyn Brianne . |
| 7 | A curved arm scythes through the air and the body follows its lead , spiralling to the ground where deft work ( and powerful abdominal and back muscles ) produce a smooth synthesis of movement , driving it across the floor and up into the next sequence . |
| 8 | It is interesting that nearly all music-hall artists adapted successfully ; evidently , years of projecting the voice over the orchestra and up towards the upper circle without the help of loudspeakers was good training . |
| 9 | As the school filed across the High Street and up towards the Common , Robert found he was sweating . |
| 10 | The Way continues up into the Black Mountains going over Sugar Loaf and up onto the main escarpment . |
| 11 | At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital . |
| 12 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 13 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 14 | A successful takeover would mean the closure of the Morland 's Abingdon brewery and up to a hundred job losses . |
| 15 | The RSPB estimates that , on average , up to 1.5 million waders and up to a million wildfowl spend the winters on the UK coasts , about 80 per cent of them on estuaries . |
| 16 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 17 | ‘ We all have to play with the hand we 're dealt , and up to a certain point we can put the blame on the dealer , but that point passed for Jamie Swift thirty years ago . ’ |
| 18 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 19 | In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule . |
| 20 | All power was knocked out by Hurricane Iniki and up to a third of the buildings were flattened . |
| 21 | Bomber Command was divided into Groups , each of which consisted of a Headquarters and up to a dozen satellite air fields scattered around it in the countryside , from East Anglia up to Yorkshire . |
| 22 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 23 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market . |
| 24 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 25 | For operations above this and up to the new five metre maximum , the installer simply removes a push-fit restrictor from the appliance . |
| 26 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 27 | Part of the east front of the West Wing , with stairs leading into area VI ( right ) and up to the first floor ( left ) |
| 28 | He turned into the still-deserted Lombard Street and up to the great stocks just before the Poultry . |
| 29 | They took the baby for rides in the pram , to the shops , and up to the tiny park with its three or four flowerbeds and margin of trees . |
| 30 | Despite the ill-judged backing of Parliament in the civil war , the family flourished and up to the present century remained prominent in Cornish — and national — affairs . |