Example sentences of "[vb past] up [conj] [adv] [art] [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 | The girl got up and not a crease marked the skirt of her suit . |
| 17 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 18 | Dyson walked up and down the bedroom in his overcoat , making large gestures , and trailing in his wake the cosy smell of digested alcohol . |
| 19 | Seru walked up and down the room . |
| 20 | The young man walked up and down the room . |
| 21 | Dorian walked up and down the room . |
| 22 | Basil got up and walked up and down the garden . |
| 23 | The sound of Masklin and Gurder 's voices echoed up and down the pipe as they scrambled over the wires . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Klaxons echoed up and down the shaft . |
| 26 | They leapt up and down the scale like mountain goats , dancing to their own pulsing rhythm . |
| 27 | A but seeing that the official figures were published every month our wages went up or down every month . |
| 28 | In that erm , in that mermaid outfit , and earning some ridiculous amount of money for an hour , while other models went up and down a catwalk for a tenth of the money , or something . |
| 29 | It was a hard days work when you went up and down a drill like that , lift the neep and yeuk lift the neep and yeuk and hope you get |
| 30 | 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 . |