Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 2 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 3 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 4 | She held my hand and we walked slowly up the yard . |
| 5 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 6 | Moving like ants in a sand-trap we gasped slowly up the near-vertical rim of the secondary crater , into a storm of ash which masked the gathering dawn . |