Example sentences of "and up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour . |
| 2 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
| 3 | She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity . |
| 4 | This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel . |
| 5 | Water is sucked through and around charcoal-impregnated filter sponges into the undergravel plate and up through the gravel . |
| 6 | Then the pantry — the old still-room — and up into the yard , with its pigsties , stables , cart sheds , barn , bakehouse , and wash-house , soon to be bulldozed … |
| 7 | They are tunnelling down into the sewers and up into the cavity walls and suspended ceilings . |
| 8 | off and up into the air with mighty shudders and wobbles . |
| 9 | ‘ The mechanism must be in this bed post , with a spring that runs here under the boarding and up into the other . ’ |
| 10 | At length , the larger of the two came out , slipped along the bank under cover of the brambles and so down into the ditch and up into the field . |
| 11 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 12 | With a shudder , she tightened her arms around the wide strength of his shoulders as he trailed small , teasing kisses from her lips , along her jawline , and up into the spread curtain of her hair . |
| 13 | I scrambled noisily and gracelessly out and up into the sunlight . |
| 14 | Each bump is as little as six angstroms or , six 10-billionths of a metre from its neighbour and was snapped by passing an electric current through the silicon , across a vacuum and up into the tip of an electrode moving across the surface . |
| 15 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 16 | Back and forth goes my hand , over the softness of my son 's forehead and up into the softness of his hair . |
| 17 | Ranulf was ordered to saddle the horses and Corbett led his little party from the abbey and up into the town . |
| 18 | First , fill in the skeleton shape : using a fine brush , draw a V- shape of charcoal eyeshadow from the centre of the eye out to the corner and up into the socket line . |
| 19 | The taxi took him through the city and up into the countryside beyond the lake , where the Amner clinic commanded its famous views . |
| 20 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 21 | One of the boys , wearing shorts and a T-shirt and little else , climbed round the pool and up below the fairy cave . |
| 22 | The guard was looking past him and up towards the heart of the factory complex . |
| 23 | But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head . |
| 24 | Hazel led the way down the slope of the run and up towards the bramble curtain . |
| 25 | Benedicta retched before , resting on Athelstan 's arm , following Cranston through Ludgate and up towards the Fleet . |
| 26 | She started to walk back up the winding little street , away from the beach , through the tiny town and up towards the complex . |
| 27 | When it is finished , I want you to come around behind that curtain and up onto the stage . |
| 28 | In a new scheme , supported by Blue Cross Animal Care , Age Concern Pet Insurance pays for cost and treatment in excess of 10 per cent ( minimum £20 ) and up to a total of £1,250 for each accident and illness . |
| 29 | Huge lakes of oil , some over a mile square and up to a metre deep , are persisting in the Kuwaiti desert , taking over from the oil fires as the most serious threat to the country 's environment . |
| 30 | We drove in cavalcade to the airport , through the runway gates and up to a Grummond II Gulf Stream , one of the larger of the executive jets of that time . |