Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] north " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frozen out North |
| 2 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 3 | Somewhere about this time the squadron we had at Bourn was shifted up north to another Group . |
| 4 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 the Tories were wiped out north of the border . |
| 5 | The pessimists feared the Conservatives ' nine seats could even be wiped out north of the border . |
| 6 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 7 | Juvenile Justice Teams will now be set up North and South of the River Tees . |
| 8 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | Nutty 's gone up north for more smelly Brits but I 'm not leaving my lovely villa and my roses so it 's civil war . |
| 10 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 11 | I think he 's gone up north . |
| 12 | ‘ But you could have gone back north . |
| 13 | That 's lined up North , make sure that 's right on the angle you 're measuring , now it 's about there . |