Example sentences of "and [adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could make their way over that and eventually up the cliff to the eleventh green of the golf-course , to the gate in the garden wall . |
| 2 | We set off , with our rucksacks , and halfway up the farmhouse had disappeared into the mist . |
| 3 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 4 | Universities such as Lancaster are going steadily and rapidly up the poll and are doing very well indeed . |
| 5 | Behind and back up the fairway Andy was waiting for Des to play first from behind the cross bunkers . |
| 6 | He clambered over the shingle at the bottom of the cliff and then up the cliff itself , arriving at the eleventh green . |
| 7 | Has a characteristic song , with a series of cooing or bubbling notes that run down and then up the scale . |
| 8 | We worked out a route of cafés , all the way down the Boulevard St. Michel to the river , velvet in the dark , and then up the Rue Saint Jacques to our home ground near the Pantheon . |
| 9 | As he journeyed on horseback through Palestine and then up the coast of southern Lebanon in the 1830s , he was an adventurer , staying overnight with the governor of Tyre , crossing the snows of the Chouf mountain chain to the gentleness of the Bekaa Valley where he sketched the great temples of the Roman city of Heliopolis . |
| 10 | Finally we reached Porto that afternoon , by flying VFR through the valley route to the coast as the bases rose in the afternoon , and then up the coast at 1,000 feet , just below the base of the broken cumulus , with spectacular views of Porto , before nipping inland to the field to park next to the German aircraft — which we were relieved to see had landed safely . |
| 11 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 12 | Doggedly , they fly higher and higher up the flanks of the mountains towards piles of immense granite boulders that lie close to the summits . |
| 13 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |