Example sentences of "[noun pl] run up [conj] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great coldness and chills run up and down the back ; pains can go up the back too . |
| 2 | 1804 It has now been represented to the Meeting that the Town of Bowmore is very much annoy 'd by a destructive Crowd of Pigs running up and down the Streets , and that many of the Inhabitants , regardless of Property . |
| 3 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 4 | The mouth emptied and Martin knelt between the open legs , his hands running up and down the thighs hair under his hands bristling and tickling almost . |
| 5 | 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 . |