Example sentences of "up [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I groped for its neighbour , found it , ducked through the gap and up on to the curved deck of the treadmill . |
| 2 | She jumped the last stone , up on to the fern-covered bank . |
| 3 | She crossed silently to the tree and swung herself up on to the nearest branch . |
| 4 | Hands tugged at the German and helped him up on to the narrow ledge . |
| 5 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 6 | Her small hand grasped his , and he drew her up on to the low walkway . |
| 7 | She climbed up on to the rickety driving platform , which had been made by tying a plank across the cab . |
| 8 | Even when the police car was able to surge up on to the elevated section of the motorway at Chiswick , the stream of traffic moved no faster and the Jaguar continued to glow in Dexter 's headlamps . |
| 9 | Gaily heaved and hitched himself up on to the high stool , shoving the bag of laundry between his feet once more . |
| 10 | It was a fine summer morning when they left and , avoiding the roads as much as possible , made their way up on to the high muirs on the Lanarkshire/Ayrshire boundary , intending to travel direct towards Priesthill and hoping to take John Browne by surprise . |
| 11 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 12 | I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor . |
| 13 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 14 | There is also a highly scenic road which you can take up on to the open ski grounds and expansive prospects of Hautacam . |
| 15 | Then the boat was moored and Tsu Ma was handing the girls up on to the wooden jetty , the soft rustle of their silks as they disembarked seeming , for that brief moment , to merge with the silken darkness of the night and the sweetness of their perfume . |
| 16 | Swinging her boots up on to the Indian bedspread to indicate her lack of concern . |
| 17 | He emptied his mind , he walked like an automaton up on to the green ride , seeing at the end of it the cameo of stacked meadows , segments of wood , a church tower . |
| 18 | A shallow ramp , suitable for transporting wheelbarrows , will be provided from the waste land south of the Brunstane Bowling Green up on to the old railway embankment . |
| 19 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 20 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 21 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |
| 22 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 23 | The waiters ' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley . |
| 24 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 25 | Much over-played these days , on the other hand , is the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez which turns up along with the Five Preludes for solo guitar by Villa-Lobos , and his lyrical Concerto for guitar and small orchestra ( . |
| 26 | Those with proven allergies , such as asthma or eczema , may show other symptoms that most self-respecting allergists would have nothing to do with — hyperactivity , for example , or muscle aches. if these clear up along with the allergic symptoms when certain foods are withdrawn , then is it allergy or intolerance ? |
| 27 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 28 | Rory got up out of the creaking wooden seat and walked unsteadily over to where Fergus lay on the bare wooden floorboards , head against the ancient , burst couch . |
| 29 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 30 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |