Example sentences of "[verb] up and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 2 | He also confirmed Lewis ' findings , being able to detect seven bands on most large standing stones , and considered that these were ‘ tapping points into a spiral release of some kind of energy that moved up and down the stone , following the lunar cycle ’ . |
| 3 | The little children moved up and down the court playing their own private games . |
| 4 | They moved up and down the keys . |
| 5 | Tony 's fingers moved up and down the piano keys . |
| 6 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 7 | The Shah paced up and down the room . |
| 8 | Jonathan paced up and down the bedroom . |
| 9 | Much more fun are the hydrofoils which ply up and down the lake . |
| 10 | Charlie could hear rifles being cocked up and down the trenches as sleepy men quickly came to life . |
| 11 | Paul Young , beside himself with excitement , was leaping up and down the hall , singing at the top of his voice . |
| 12 | But , not yet used to leaping up and down the ladder , she was slower and more careful . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't care for myself , ’ he tells Felicity , walking up and down the kitchen as she prepares dinner . |
| 14 | ‘ But you must know ! ’ says Howard to Felicity , walking up and down the living-room and clutching an amazed hand to his forehead . |
| 15 | Two buskers were playing banjos , walking up and down the line , while a dwarf scampered in and out of the waiting cinema-goers with an outstretched hand , cajoling money from the queue . |
| 16 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 17 | Her eldest brother Mickey was walking up and down the room talking , his face set in a dark scowl . |
| 18 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
| 19 | After that , it was simply a matter of having a strong wind , the sailors climbing up and down the rigging , adjusting the sail to catch every breeze and puff of air while look-outs were posted high above the mast . |
| 20 | He shivered at the ‘ yip , yip ’ of a fox carried by the cool night wind and jumped at the screech of the huge bats which flickered up and down the castle walls . |
| 21 | Storming up and down the place saying just give me one last script , you ca n't cut me dead and ca n't you give me something and I 'll cut down on this last one and all this . |
| 22 | A man in white overalls was busy collecting dirty bed sheets and towels , pushing the excrement- and bloodstained linen into a trolley he was pushing up and down the ward . |
| 23 | There were no solid divisions between neighbours , and the children played up and down the length of the house . |
| 24 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm damned sure it was an attempt to kill Tweed , ’ Kuhlmann told Newman as they again strolled up and down the concourse of the main station . |
| 26 | Meese even resembled Porfiry , aimiable and unhurried , ‘ his fat , round little figure … rebounding from every wall and corner ’ as he strolled up and down the room . |
| 27 | Allegations about racial harassment simmer away in the background , unhelped by the tiny number of non-whites in police forces up and down the country . |
| 28 | He left his job as Chairman of Ratners in November and was busy searching up and down the country for another shop . |
| 29 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 30 | Prior to the application to Council a research programme financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample years from the Gloucester port books succeeded in devising a database capable of storing and retrieving information about the voyages of boats passing up and down the Severn through Gloucester and the cargoes they carried . |