Example sentences of "climb [adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 2 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 3 | One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them . |
| 4 | It was sad and harrowing discovery for the Kazakh North-East ridge expedition — winding the clock back a decade to the tragic events of the morning of May 17 , 1982 and two tiny figures climbing steadily up the North-East ridge of Everest . |
| 5 | For what seems like an eternity ( but is in fact nearer ten seconds ) the unaccustomed g crushes me into the seat , my peripheral vision suffering as the nose climbs inexorably up the sky . |
| 6 | Climb straight up the V-groove to ledges ( more fulmars ) than take the short crack above or the ramp on the left to finish . |
| 7 | I climb up up the ladder ! |
| 8 | He waited until the guard was opposite him then he stepped deliberately over the warning rail and climbed slowly up the wire . |
| 9 | Little Billy and Don Mini climbed back up the tree to where all the other Minpins were gathered . |
| 10 | She climbed back up the stairs to the dining-room . |
| 11 | Harriet climbed back up the steps . |
| 12 | Afterwards we climbed back up the path towards the summit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Overnight stardom was largely a myth , though some climbed higher up the ladder more quickly , and quite often suffered as a result . |
| 15 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 16 | Small numbers of aphids and other soft-bodied insects can be quickly rubbed off plants , while a forcible spray from a hose-pipe will disperse larger colonies , few of the insects surviving to climb back up the plant . |
| 17 | As McHale said , they must try to climb back up the table but an end-of-season clear out could be a good idea . |
| 18 | Paul had climbed back up the embankment — with the post sticking out of his body . |