Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet typically it was a journey not of niggle and frustration but full of accommodation , friendliness and amusement : a kind of ‘ in and out the dusty bluebells ’ played with bulging sacks . |
| 2 | She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated . |
| 3 | He walked up and down the wide streets , trying to admire the modern buildings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The only vehicles Irena took any notice of were the thin double trams , locked inscrutably into their own system , clanging their way up and down the narrow streets making unmistakable tram noises . |
| 6 | Inwardly she trembled , but she managed to glare at him and searched up and down the narrow aisles for the right number . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Saturday night is racing cars up and down the eight miles of road , the nearest policeman being , perhaps , a whole day away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Less well known , but in my opinion more interesting , is the fact that unofficial and unspoken nonaggression pacts , a ‘ live-and-let-live ’ system , flourished all up and down the front lines for at least two years starting in 1914 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The club 's travels up and down the four divisions in the last 18 years have helped , and he completed the full set of 92 grounds at Watford three or four years ago . |
| 15 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
| 16 | By nightfall , ten thousand victims of the explosion had invaded the Red Cross Hospital , and Dr Sasaki , worn out , was moving aimlessly and dully up and down the stinking corridors with wads of bandages and bottles , binding up the worst cuts as he came to them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Free in San Francisco to explore Chinatown , browse in the shops of Fisherman 's Wharf , ride a cable-car up and down the steep streets or visit the grim fortress of Alcatraz . |
| 19 | Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination . |
| 20 | 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 . |