Example sentences of "[adv] up and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood up and began to walk impatiently up and down the cell in the darkness . |
| 2 | He asked , and stropped the knife blade gently up and down the skin behind my ear . |
| 3 | Wedges of red-sashed men were driving in up and down the catwalk , cutting the defenders off into pockets . |
| 4 | She walked feverishly up and down the room , until an idea came to her . |
| 5 | The delegates gave an overwhelming vote in favour of retaining the title " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , not just on the spur of the moment but after the matter had been chewed over up and down the country . |
| 6 | The Judge raised his noose again , while the rats ran desperately up and down the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 7 | In the seventeenth century a famous visionary and seer , locally know as the Brahan Seer , predicted ‘ That the day will come when every stream will have its bridge , balls of fire will pass rapidly up and down the Strath of Peffery , carriages without horses will cross the country from sea to sea . ’ |
| 8 | He pushed two packets of Players and a box of matches through the bars while the German stood miserably in the background looking furtively up and down the wire . |
| 9 | Ben was walking slowly up and down the room , looking about him curiously . |
| 10 | Robert , who was still looking nervously up and down the garden , stood a little away from the rear wall . |
| 11 | He begins to pace restlessly up and down the platform , his pacings taking him nearer and nearer to the tunnel at the end . |
| 12 | The overall volume of transport decreases both up and down the beach from this zone . |
| 13 | There was a total failure to communicate effectively both up and down the lines of management . |
| 14 | The most important item lacking was a turntable , which was needed so that Bishop 's Castle locomotives could work chimney first both up and down the line — an important safety consideration for passenger traffic as the engines would have been likely to run more steadily when going forward . |
| 15 | This option enables you to display a list of a user 's immediate relations , both up and down the family tree . |
| 16 | Communicate effectively with colleagues , both up and down the chain of responsibility , to help ensure that risk management activities are sufficiently comprehensive and understood . |
| 17 | A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself . |
| 18 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 19 | Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus . |
| 20 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 21 | A neighbour said he often saw Mr Huang spending hours walking aimlessly up and down the town 's Yarm Road . |
| 22 | He loves his back-seat role , moving quietly up and down the lines , constantly persuading and cajoling . |