Example sentences of "and [vb past] up towards the " in BNC.

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1 A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants .
2 A light breeze from the north cleared the air and the sun blazed out over distant mountains as we headed between the Crowlin Isles and shaped up towards the Kyle of Localsh .
3 He stepped away from the letter box and looked up towards the window .
4 Macready and his group turned away from us and drifted up towards the darkened area near the roof before disappearing through a doorway .
5 Maisie gave him a contemptuous look and marched up towards the patio .
6 But before it was consumed entirely , it lifted off and shot up towards the painstyled plaster of the ceiling .
7 Friends and relatives continued to circle the liner in small boats ; a fox terrier , sent on ahead from Germany , was rowed out each day and held up towards the rail and its distant owners .
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