Example sentences of "and [noun pl] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forests , coniferous , deciduous and mixed , sometimes in villages and large cities , often hunting by day for mammals up to the size of a red squirrel and birds up to the size of a Hazelhen. 24 in. ( 61 cm . ) . |
| 2 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 3 | The transformation of the ceiling was brought about with two simple pulleys , almost on a clothes-line principle , that took a tent of diamonds and icicles up around the chandelier . |
| 4 | She groped her way across and landed the doctor on the mud and he slithered on hands and knees up to the bank . |
| 5 | But Mr Tomlinson built his own bonnet , mudguards and steps up to the cab and set in louvred vents either side of the bonnet to let out the heat produced by the massive engine . |
| 6 | It is a thin sheet of plastic , covered with a shiny coating of the metal alloy , virilium , and folds up to the size of a handkerchief . |
| 7 | Philip was glad he 'd left the wire and cutters up in the wood . |
| 8 | They ran a hardware store and diner in the White Mountains of New Hampshire , serving the hikers and campers up on the Appalachian trail . |
| 9 | Temptation proved too strong one night when there were some naval cadets in the audience who threw flowers and chocolates up to the troupe and were waiting at the stage door after the show . |
| 10 | ranging from estate agents , and there are two on the end here from er both products are involved with estate agents , medical practices area health authorities , schools universities and colleges up in the top right there and the obvious ones down in the er corner there . |
| 11 | Her ‘ antarctic polar deserts ’ region covers the continent , peninsula and islands up to the northern limit of pack ice , and is divided into southern and northern subregions separated by the 0°C summer isotherm , which approximates to the isoline of zero radiation balance . |
| 12 | The day was idyllic , with clear blue skies and temperatures up in the shirt-sleeves . |
| 13 | Around most of the walls are black stone excrescences which take the form of a rib-cage projecting from a central spine which grows up the north side of the room and arches up to the centre of the ceiling . |
| 14 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |