Example sentences of "up into [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So she 's split the twelve up into a two times six .
2 A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone .
3 He did n't sleep , despite being tired , but sat up into the small hours with an object of study that he 'd previously dismissed as fanciful nonsense : Chant 's final letter .
4 Ruth lay beneath him , inert , gazing up into the dark depths of his eyes .
5 And a couple of days ago Fergus had suggested they go for a longer hike , up into the trackless hills where the Landy could n't reach .
6 Now we were huddled against the wall of sheer , pale grey rock that soared seamlessly into the sky , up into the ice-white clouds above .
7 In its enclosed valley basin the fume and grime from the cheap coal of its suburban collieries with iron works , brass foundries and glass works was already driving the wealthier merchants up into the healthy heights of Clifton by the 1720s .
8 Telegraph poles push up into the living quarters protecting folk from the fickle rising seas .
9 But for the local manufacturers , we pedal it and dress it up here before it is delivered , so that it 's then in its final beauty , ready for being cut up into the various items of saddlery .
10 The road to follow up into the low hills is marked with the sign ‘ Coteaux de Jurançon ’ , though it is also quite easy to lose once you are up there ; but when vineyards are so thin on the ground as it were in this part of the country , there is every reason to get briefly lost amongst them .
11 But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed .
12 The house was quite high on the slopes and he could see the main road down into the town , and behind that the mountains on the other side of the valley sweeping up into the changing skies .
13 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 .
14 My route takes me up into the Chiltern foothills , and a labyrinth of green lanes .
15 Soon , below them , they began to smell the revolting hot stench of the Gruncher 's breath , and the orange-red smoke was now billowing up into the lower branches in thick clouds .
16 She moved round the tree , peering up into the bare branches .
17 Gabriel looked up into the two faces : there was Garvey , curl-haired , jolly , with a shining bald tonsure and round , red cheeks , bright blue eyes and long , dark lashes ; and there was Lucie , his skin stretched so tight over his bones that its yellowness might have been the skull shining through ; deep-hollowed eyes and troughs under his cheek-bones like two gouges of the Mason 's chisel ; and those flashing , foreign eyes .
18 Stephen and Tony were both in reserved occupations but Joe and Terry were called up into the Irish Guards and sent to Caterham Barracks and a week later Eileen left for the WAAFs .
19 The nose-tingling aroma of rosemary in itself is enough to banish catarrh and sinus infections as it trickles coolly up into the nasal cavities and spreads behind the cheekbones and forehead .
20 For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands .
21 She stared up into the sun-dappled leaves .
22 ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along .
23 Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart .
24 It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out .
25 Huge flurries of snow and feathers as his 20 panicked concubines flew up into the surrounding trees .
26 By the beginning of the nineteenth century Siberia was divided up into the three governorships ( gubemii ) of Tobolsk , Tomsk and Irkutsk , each of them further subdivided , like any other guberniya in the empire , into a number of regions ( oblasti ) and districts ( uezdy ) .
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