Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences . |
| 2 | He jumps up and begins to walk up and down the terrace . |
| 3 | Paul could not keep still in his place ; he pushed back his chair , left the food on his plate , and began to walk up and down the room . |
| 4 | But he has time to walk up and down the room only five times , telling Felicity what Prue said , before the phone rings again . |
| 5 | It also has a very attractive promenade and a small harbour from where boats set off to go up and down the lake . |
| 6 | She started to go up and down the ladder , carrying the straw . |
| 7 | Bass , tenor , alto and soprano ; the words seemed to glide up and down the scale from moment to moment with no consistency . |
| 8 | Information was designed to flow up and down the organisation to ensure that all decentralised objectives were compatible with , and a part of , the total corporate objective . |
| 9 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet and began to run up and down the garden , shrieking , turning cartwheels , hopping on one leg . |
| 10 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 11 | She commenced to promenade up and down the stage , punctuating her remarks with hammy gestures of her lorgnette and preposterously long cigarette holder . |
| 12 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 13 | Quigley started to pace up and down the room as the mass murderer , who had now leaped out of bed and on to the window-sill of his hospital suite , announced his intention of travelling the sixteen floors between him and the pavement without the aid of lift or stairs . |
| 14 | However , when she raised her head to look at him once more he hesitated , giving a preoccupied shake of his head before beginning to pace up and down the carpet in front of her . |
| 15 | Edward began to fidget up and down the room . |
| 16 | But my idea would be to meander up and down the country , stopping off at interesting towns like this . |
| 17 | Abruptly he left her , the bed lifting as he rose , and began to stride up and down the floor while Meredith frantically searched for her own clothes , her eyes warily on him . |
| 18 | Dyson scarcely had time to stride up and down the office that morning , lecturing Bob on the importance of television , but he was in great form all the same . |
| 19 | Mike started to stride up and down the room . |
| 20 | He began to stride up and down the room again , smiling at himself . |