Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bass , tenor , alto and soprano ; the words seemed to glide up and down the scale from moment to moment with no consistency . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet and began to run up and down the garden , shrieking , turning cartwheels , hopping on one leg . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Edward began to fidget up and down the room . |
| 6 | He began pacing up and down the room . |
| 7 | He began to stride up and down the room again , smiling at himself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He knew the fish was doomed Methodically , he began to splash up and down the large pool almost falling several times as he traversed the uneven sandy bottom . |
| 10 | She started to go up and down the ladder , carrying the straw . |
| 11 | ‘ Shut up , you bloody lot , ’ shouted a soldier , and and he and his companions started rushing up and down the room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He got up and started pacing up and down the room . |
| 14 | Mike started to stride up and down the room . |
| 15 | She commenced to promenade up and down the stage , punctuating her remarks with hammy gestures of her lorgnette and preposterously long cigarette holder . |
| 16 | The party he had sought up and down the streets of Keswick , around the lake and in the gardens , was here in the mysterious circle of fifty upright stones at Castlerigg . |
| 17 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 18 | It had happened up and down the land , and Steve White said even he 'd been given £10,000 for an earlier move between Luton and Charlton Athletic . |
| 19 | Throughout the match rumour of a reprieve had chased up and down the stand . |