Example sentences of "[verb] up and [adv] [art] [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 When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second .
6 The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line .
7 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 .
8 Information flow does not have to be restricted to passing up and down the scalar chain , but authority should .
9 A semi-circular wedge is moved up and down an inclined groove in an aluminium nut , with a trigger .
10 If you walk up and down a pebbly beach , you will notice that the pebbles are not arranged at random .
11 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 .
12 I walk up and down the little room again .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 There was a grey squirrel nipping up and down a hazel tree near the stream .
17 Though its popularity goes up and down a little according to the fashion of the year , the genre is plainly here to stay .
18 A suitable mix of exercise includes cycling on an ergometer , stepping up and down a two-step climb , a variety of arm and leg exercises using dumb-bells or fixed-weight training equipment and jogging on a mini-trampoline .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night .
22 He walked up and down the wide streets , trying to admire the modern buildings .
23 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 .
24 Anna walked up and down the next street , calling , and around the block and further afield .
25 All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path .
26 It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 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 .
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