Example sentences of "[vb past] up [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The little children moved up and down the court playing their own private games . |
| 3 | Tony 's fingers moved up and down the piano keys . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Shah paced up and down the room . |
| 6 | Jonathan paced up and down the bedroom . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were no solid divisions between neighbours , and the children played up and down the length of the house . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless she followed him and for the next quarter of an hour they streaked up and down the pool . |
| 12 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Thus Hamilton cruised up and down the coast , out of touch with what was happening on the beaches . |
| 15 | He did n't like the microphone and had to be cajoled into using it , he stalked up and down the front of the hall quoting from cuttings on the Vietnam War , and was heard by few . |
| 16 | Dyson walked up and down the bedroom in his overcoat , making large gestures , and trailing in his wake the cosy smell of digested alcohol . |
| 17 | Seru walked up and down the room . |
| 18 | The young man walked up and down the room . |
| 19 | Dorian walked up and down the room . |
| 20 | Basil got up and walked up and down the garden . |
| 21 | The sound of Masklin and Gurder 's voices echoed up and down the pipe as they scrambled over the wires . |
| 22 | A black and vicious claw burst through the woodwork of the door with an explosive crash that echoed up and down the staircase like thunder . |
| 23 | Klaxons echoed up and down the shaft . |
| 24 | They leapt up and down the scale like mountain goats , dancing to their own pulsing rhythm . |
| 25 | Our Father went up and down the aisle with a microphone , leading the singing in a tuneless baritone which boomed from a loudspeaker at the front of the bus . |
| 26 | Then he went up and down the room holding a walking stick , just like the old gentlemen who walked in the streets . |
| 27 | There was a typewriter involved too and as the lift went up and down the typewriter 's bell tinkled metallically . |
| 28 | This roller skated juggler went up and down the overlay several times whilst juggling . |
| 29 | He had dropped into a thick Geordie twang and , after laughing , he looked up and down the platform now , saying , ‘ We must be the only ones expecting a passenger . ’ |
| 30 | Passengers went to the open doors and looked up and down the platform , trying to make out why they were stuck there , but no one looked up on to the roof of the car . |