Example sentences of "up [art] slope " in BNC.

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1 Break up the slope by creating different levels .
2 You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences .
3 Fifty metres or so up the slope , she began to waver and looked ready to collapse again .
4 He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function , and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move .
5 I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside .
6 I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope .
7 He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him .
8 ‘ Bounced out as soon as she heard me call you and came scrabbling up the slope .
9 Indeed , he could modify his model by supposing that the gradient has its high point at the back edge of each segment , and that bristles point up the slope , and it would work just as well .
10 The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope .
11 Warriors including Ollokot meanwhile scampered up the slope and mounted a defensive fire into the soldiers ' flanks from improvised rifle-pits .
12 His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope .
13 Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it .
14 Slowly , gingerly , one behind the other , they climbed back up the slope , loose stones and shale slithering and clattering away under their feet and pouring like noisy rain into the depths of the quarry .
15 … turning there towards Ken Wood , and climbing up the slope , I spotted a solitary Scots pine tree among the beeches .
16 They went through Mill Hill Circus just a hundred yards behind the bleeper and up the slope to Five Ways Corner .
17 The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage .
18 Facing up the slope and against the wind in the second half , Chelmsford had no chance of making up the deficit .
19 Slowly , you begin to build up confidence , learn to sidestep up the slope and slide cautiously down keeping your skis evenly apart .
20 Soon you can graduate to using a rope tow to save the considerable effort of sidestepping up the slope , then ski down , stopping in a snow plough at first , then adding simple turns .
21 Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down .
22 In the protected area at the bottom of the hill the wind was gentle , but further up the slope it picked up considerably to 16–17 miles an hour .
23 Go north to the stile , then up the slope to the fence and National Trust sign .
24 But for the British infantryman , overburdened and attacking up the slope , speed was the one thing of which he was incapable .
25 The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades .
26 The other Frenchmen were retreating up the slope , unwilling to give battle to the greater number of black-uniformed Hussars .
27 Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope .
28 The English had the advantage of a dominating position and they subjected the Scots to a devastating hail of arrows as they struggled up the slope to engage the English forces .
29 Pull yourself up the slope with the pick head and then keep your balance by sticking the other end into the ground .
30 He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope .
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