Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] north [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 2 | I wandered back north towards the church . |
| 3 | A large Roman settlement existed just north of the village and the great Iron Age hill-fort of Rainsborough lies a little to the south-east . |
| 4 | The cloud formed just north of the Soviet Kola Peninsula , where there are four nuclear power plants . |
| 5 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 6 | Outflanking the Himalayas , this time on the western side , some ancestral tigers carried on north towards the shores of the Caspian Sea . |
| 7 | The first Tyneside agency was the Tyne Improvement Commission which transformed the river by deepening it , rechannelling it ( to such an extent that a piece of Durham ended up North of the Tyne ) and building the largest harbour on the east coast and the only harbour of refuge accessible in all weather and tide conditions . |