Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Highly professional renovators and restorers moved in and gradually the house resumed its former glory . |
| 2 | Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped . |
| 3 | In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose . |
| 4 | He also confirmed Lewis ' findings , being able to detect seven bands on most large standing stones , and considered that these were ‘ tapping points into a spiral release of some kind of energy that moved up and down the stone , following the lunar cycle ’ . |
| 5 | The little children moved up and down the court playing their own private games . |
| 6 | Tony 's fingers moved up and down the piano keys . |
| 7 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 8 | The Shah paced up and down the room . |
| 9 | Jonathan paced up and down the bedroom . |
| 10 | He shivered at the ‘ yip , yip ’ of a fox carried by the cool night wind and jumped at the screech of the huge bats which flickered up and down the castle walls . |
| 11 | Harriet 's voice rose aggressively and then the receiver was slammed down . |
| 12 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 13 | The jets came home and then the maintenance and support staff . |
| 14 | There were no solid divisions between neighbours , and the children played up and down the length of the house . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm damned sure it was an attempt to kill Tweed , ’ Kuhlmann told Newman as they again strolled up and down the concourse of the main station . |
| 16 | Meese even resembled Porfiry , aimiable and unhurried , ‘ his fat , round little figure … rebounding from every wall and corner ’ as he strolled up and down the room . |
| 17 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 18 | They want to find out why the men drove there and how the truck caught fire . |
| 19 | And erm well this became more or less the policy of the union . |
| 20 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 21 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published ) — he describes what became more and more the norm . |
| 22 | Then , as Mike became more and more the lead guitarist , I played more and more bass . |
| 23 | The profit of the company is partially shared with employees and a payment made once or twice a year . |
| 24 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |
| 25 | Richard opened slowly and then the cock was in and he could see only Martin 's glistening blond hair between his legs . |
| 26 | Nevertheless she followed him and for the next quarter of an hour they streaked up and down the pool . |
| 27 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 28 | He got it close and holed out and then the camera focused on Brian Harley , who had a slightly shorter putt . |
| 29 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 30 | That month saw a new invasion alarm , as a French fleet cruised up and down the Channel under Admiral D'Orvilliers and a large French army under Marshal de Broglie was assembled at Vaussieux in Normandy , though this was in fact only a routine ‘ camp of exercise ’ . |