Example sentences of "[noun sg] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evening up the odds : using a stick against a knifeman , you have a greater range |
| 2 | It is best reached by continuing along the road , now unenclosed , until near Leck Fell House when a steep scramble up the hillside ends in the company of the three massive cairns that will have plagued the curiosity since they first came in sight earlier . |
| 3 | He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick . |
| 4 | ‘ After that scramble up the cliff ? |
| 5 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 6 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 7 | On their slow progress back up the road Hyacinth lagged behind them , pausing more and more often and holding her belly . |
| 8 | It squealed and dashed unhurt into the corn , and she trotted her st'lyan back up the road again , laughing . |
| 9 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 10 | ‘ Best be movin , ’ he said and they swung open the gate and set off at a jaunty pace back up the lane towards the main road . |
| 11 | After a Ploughman 's lunch with his wife Pandora and 4 children , he drove his Renault Espace van back up the lane to their luxury home in Hailey village , saying nothing about his financial situation . |
| 12 | Built by Colla MacDonnell in the sixteenth century , it clings to a narrow promontory , and although there is not much left of the castle itself , its magnificent position is worth the long haul back up the cliff path . |
| 13 | Before climbing a steep , stiff staircase back up the cliff to Rhossili , I paused to watch the waves licking at the oak ribs of the Helvetia — a Norwegian coaster driven aground in 1887 , whose remains are still half buried in the sand . |
| 14 | Small back streets run higgledy-piggledy back up the hill from the golden , sandy beach and the main prom , and these contain a jumble of small bars , Spanish and seafood restaurants , Bodegas with wine barrels stretching from floor to ceiling , and wonderful shops selling leather , shoes and denim at remarkable prices . |
| 15 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 16 | With a skilful lurch he gave the bent hydrant on the sidewalk a crunchy shouldercheck and we were off , weaving at speed back up the street . |
| 17 | She lugs the most recent bag of trash back up the stairs , unties it , putrid stench , fermenting and ghastly like old fruit skins . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll get on back up the stairs then an' put the kettle on . |
| 19 | The supplier need not identify the actual manufacturer , only the next person back up the chain of supply . |
| 20 | This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley . |
| 21 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is that 's my week up the spout like , in n it ? |
| 22 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 23 | The border to Finland is half way up the 30-mile ( 48km ) long canal and the canal office is at the eighth of the nine locks . |
| 24 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 25 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |
| 26 | We take our seats half way up the stalls . |
| 27 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 28 | Chairman Judith Billingham said yesterday : ‘ Wales is one of the highest drinking regions of the UK and about half way up the league table for Europe . |
| 29 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 30 | Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons ' front garden . |