Example sentences of "up the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most irredeemably damned , in their white dinner jackets and turbans or strapless black sheaths and dripping jewellery , clogged up the lower circles , dropping chips onto the grid as if casting swill to the pigs . |
| 2 | A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather . |
| 3 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 4 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 5 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 6 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 7 | More reinforcements flew in yesterday morning from the 7th Infantry Division in Fort Ord , California , to back up the earlier contingents from the 82nd Airborne and the 5th Mechanised Infantry , who launched the initial assaults . |
| 8 | Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features . |
| 9 | The king himself led an army into Liddesdale , rounded up the better-known thieves and ‘ tuik of thame to the number of xxxii personis of the greitest of them ’ , including Armstrongs and Elliots . |
| 10 | In the corner of the shed , I find the two short planks Pa uses for leaf collecting and set about scraping up the smaller pieces . |
| 11 | In the wild , smaller billed species of vultures and kites tidy up the smaller remains and clean the bones after the Griffons and Lappet-faced Vultures have had their fill . |
| 12 | While Carl Fogarty took the big race of the day the Superbike , young Dunlop scooped up the smaller classes by landing both 250cc races as well as the 125cc , thus making up for his disappointment of last year when he scored only one win against Phillip McCallen 's five . |
| 13 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |