Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 2 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 3 | As he paced up and down the narrow kitchen , shouting curses through the bedroom door , Constance smiled . |
| 4 | Daniel paced up and down the polished floor from one end of the long room to the other ; his sentences bore the rehearsed solemnity of a stage drama . |
| 5 | Well do I remember walking up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco , and also attending a performance of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , with that debonair veteran Frenchman Pierre Montreux conducting . |
| 6 | Information flow does not have to be restricted to passing up and down the scalar chain , but authority should . |
| 7 | They walk up and down the teeming thoroughfares of Central London distributing to lookalikes and doppelgangers a leaflet advertising Mr Tim 's College of English . |
| 8 | I walk up and down the little room again . |
| 9 | Like Lawrence of Arabia going up and down the majestic sand dunes , he has over the years risen to great heights , and plummeted to great depths . |
| 10 | For instance , how to groom a horse , how to harness it and how to walk up and down the long rigs alongside your favourite ploughman , listening to his songs and watching his work with the horses . |
| 11 | Their suction-boots seemed to allow them to walk up and down the steepest branches with the greatest ease , and some were even walking upside-down underneath the branches . |
| 12 | London 's Waterloo & City tube line , where the 1940 vintage cars sport NSE livery on the outside and Southern Railway ventilator grilles on the inside , and the individualistic Manchester-Bury line , where Lancashire & Yorkshire influence still shines through with battered 1959 BR stock rattling up and down the short , but unique 1,200V DC side contact third rail complete with semaphore signals . |
| 13 | Plainly you can not apply that view to everything or the whole of your business is in a continuous state of stop/go , or like the good old Duke of York 's troops , marching up and down the same hill with monotonous regularity . |
| 14 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 15 | He walked up and down the wide streets , trying to admire the modern buildings . |
| 16 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 17 | Anna walked up and down the next street , calling , and around the block and further afield . |
| 18 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 19 | It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch . |
| 20 | Once this was a series of separate houses , with walls isolating level from level , with lackeys running up and down the poky backstairs , and tweeny-maids freezing in the little attic bedrooms . |
| 21 | Elinor folded her arms and , shaking her head in the way Henry sometimes did at the motorists who cut him up , she began to pace up and down the red-tiled kitchen . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have occurred to you before you dropped your bombshell that it would distract Simon , ’ Vitor said , starting to pace up and down the confined space like an enraged tiger trapped in a too small cage . |
| 23 | Harry again experienced a sudden lethargy of the lower limbs , which he overcame by the thought of the greater paralysis at being trapped in the glass lift , forevermore exhibited up and down the tropical conservatory . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps Mrs Porter will do that , ’ Belinda murmured against his lips , letting her fingers trail up and down the sinewed shape of his back . |
| 25 | His non-stop verbal explications , declaimed as he strode up and down the crowded aisles , described the gods and mythology and history of the people of Persia ; and his improvisation fitted what was happening in the film as the hair fits the head . |
| 26 | The shore event was poor , principally because a commercial fisherman from Portstewart thoughtfully trawled up and down the shallow waters of the East Strand the day of the first competition . |
| 27 | At that time , one could enter the building easily , wander up and down the racked and discoloured ramp , contemplate the looting of one of the door handles , even find undrunk wine in a cupboard . |
| 28 | The heavy rain did not let up and soon the vast crowds had churned the whole area into a sea of mud . |
| 29 | Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination . |
| 30 | Hitherto social mobility research has tried to understand how men move up and down the social ladder by looking at them as isolated individuals , neither helped nor hindered by family life . |