Example sentences of "and up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour .
2 Start by measuring in a rough circle around the dog 's throat and up over the ears , and then add a further 5 cm ( 2 in ) to this figure .
3 Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track .
4 Again , his fingers teased her , running a path of torturing heat about her thigh , and up over the jutting bone of her hip , close — far too close ! — to that part of her where the aching need had its centre .
5 That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad .
6 It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village .
7 The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media .
8 This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel .
9 Water is sucked through and around charcoal-impregnated filter sponges into the undergravel plate and up through the gravel .
10 This walk takes you through the Whinlatter Forest and up through the trees to the top of Grisedale Pike at 2,593ft .
11 She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity .
12 ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches .
13 From Mynydd Ddu the Way pushes northwards through the town of Llandovery and up into the Cambrian Mountains , passing close to the shores of the huge reservoir , Llyn Brianne .
14 They took him outside and up into the mountains .
15 Then the pantry — the old still-room — and up into the yard , with its pigsties , stables , cart sheds , barn , bakehouse , and wash-house , soon to be bulldozed …
16 We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm .
17 Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic .
18 From Lago Agrio a gravel road leads through the jungle and up into the Andes , reaching Quito , the capital of Ecuador , over a 4000 m pass .
19 Each bump is as little as six angstroms or , six 10-billionths of a metre from its neighbour and was snapped by passing an electric current through the silicon , across a vacuum and up into the tip of an electrode moving across the surface .
20 Ranulf was ordered to saddle the horses and Corbett led his little party from the abbey and up into the town .
21 All over the south and south-west of England and up into the midlands and the borders of Wales we may encounter ancient hill forts on hill tops or upper slopes , still marked by the visible line of prehistoric ditches .
22 off and up into the air with mighty shudders and wobbles .
23 First , fill in the skeleton shape : using a fine brush , draw a V- shape of charcoal eyeshadow from the centre of the eye out to the corner and up into the socket line .
24 We managed to flee across the river and up into the hills .
25 I scrambled noisily and gracelessly out and up into the sunlight .
26 At length , the larger of the two came out , slipped along the bank under cover of the brambles and so down into the ditch and up into the field .
27 The taxi took him through the city and up into the countryside beyond the lake , where the Amner clinic commanded its famous views .
28 Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage .
29 With a shudder , she tightened her arms around the wide strength of his shoulders as he trailed small , teasing kisses from her lips , along her jawline , and up into the spread curtain of her hair .
30 Again it runs from North Africa through Spain and up into the Alps .
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