Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 2 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 3 | And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes . |
| 4 | Pull out leftwards from beneath the overhang to gain a groove , followed by a crack , leading directly up to a big ledge . |
| 5 | He took off , flying low and keeping out of sight , tilting quickly up above a treeline to check what he had seen and then tipping out of sight again . |
| 6 | Then the Line itself-supply trenches angling cautiously up to an elaborate hem-stitch of Allied positions , with the wire lying beyond , scruffy and irregular , a tide mark in no-man 's land . |
| 7 | But at a conference today , chief executives of some of the country 's biggest companies have been hearing how up to a thousand new jobs could be created . |
| 8 | Steering fishily up from an unknown floor . |