Example sentences of "[adv] up the slope " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty metres or so up the slope , she began to waver and looked ready to collapse again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 5 | The Ingledew mansion was going up across the creek on the other side , above the grove where the saman stood and facing west ; Tom had sited his Great House further up the slope , by a magnificent specimen of an Indian fig tree with aerial roots falling like stilts and snaking over the ground below , and had designed a belvedere in the roof to give views to the four quarters . |
| 6 | As they reared backwards and ground further up the slope , a wild , sweet smell arose , sweet and rotten , mingling with the blasting smoke from the exhaust . |
| 7 | A fundamental control is the degree of instability of the reacting system , or in our mechanical analogy ( Fig. 6.4 ) , how far up the slope our ball is located . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades . |
| 10 | I broke from them , and ran back up the slope to my mother 's house . |
| 11 | Ben looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 12 | Shepherd turned and looked back up the slope . |
| 13 | She turned , her throat constricted now , her heart pounding in her breast , and began to run back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 14 | She turned and looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 15 | Charlotte turned away and started back up the slope towards the road . |
| 16 | I ran all the way back up the slope and into the lighted lounge . |
| 17 | She let him help her back up the slope , round the other side of the danger area , and demonstrate by the skeletal walls where the various rooms of the baths lay , and their impressive extent . |
| 18 | Duncan got behind the Golf and pushed it to prove it would move , then set off back up the slope to get the truck . |
| 19 | Go north to the stile , then up the slope to the fence and National Trust sign . |
| 20 | We gradually side stepped higher up the slope . |
| 21 | I crawled quietly up the slope , the grass sliding under my chest and belly , my legs straining to propel my bulk up and forward . |