Example sentences of "[v-ing] up and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 2 | Paul Young , beside himself with excitement , was leaping up and down the hall , singing at the top of his voice . |
| 3 | But , not yet used to leaping up and down the ladder , she was slower and more careful . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't care for myself , ’ he tells Felicity , walking up and down the kitchen as she prepares dinner . |
| 5 | ‘ But you must know ! ’ says Howard to Felicity , walking up and down the living-room and clutching an amazed hand to his forehead . |
| 6 | Two buskers were playing banjos , walking up and down the line , while a dwarf scampered in and out of the waiting cinema-goers with an outstretched hand , cajoling money from the queue . |
| 7 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 8 | Her eldest brother Mickey was walking up and down the room talking , his face set in a dark scowl . |
| 9 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
| 10 | After that , it was simply a matter of having a strong wind , the sailors climbing up and down the rigging , adjusting the sail to catch every breeze and puff of air while look-outs were posted high above the mast . |
| 11 | Storming up and down the place saying just give me one last script , you ca n't cut me dead and ca n't you give me something and I 'll cut down on this last one and all this . |
| 12 | A man in white overalls was busy collecting dirty bed sheets and towels , pushing the excrement- and bloodstained linen into a trolley he was pushing up and down the ward . |
| 13 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 14 | He left his job as Chairman of Ratners in November and was busy searching up and down the country for another shop . |
| 15 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 16 | Prior to the application to Council a research programme financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample years from the Gloucester port books succeeded in devising a database capable of storing and retrieving information about the voyages of boats passing up and down the Severn through Gloucester and the cargoes they carried . |
| 17 | We trolled for mackerel , passing up and down the coast . |
| 18 | It would certainly not be over stressing the point to say that Waugh returns a maturer player than when last seen sprinting up and down the wickets of Colchester and Southend . |
| 19 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |
| 20 | Bob Crayshaw said , looking up and down the table while he shifted his cutlery around as if he might find answers in the new arrangement . |
| 21 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 22 | We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out ‘ Banbury cakes ! |
| 23 | But instead of a hosereel going up and down the field , you have a tractor and an injector . ’ |
| 24 | I like watching her going up and down the baths . |
| 25 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
| 26 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has been rushing up and down the country making what I take it he regards as encouraging noises to Cypriots , Kashmiris and others . |
| 27 | ‘ Someone help Caroline , please , ’ Miss Fazackerly cried , rushing up and down the line of children like a sheep dog . |
| 28 | ‘ Shut up , you bloody lot , ’ shouted a soldier , and and he and his companions started rushing up and down the room . |
| 29 | At first , close up , it seems very dirty and sullen and yet dignified , large and powerful in its presence until it becomes loud , hurrying up and down the tracks with a frenzied passion , and then , just as we see it disappearing beyond the horizon it seems like a far off star or ‘ comet ’ silently entering another world . |
| 30 | And for three decades we 've given our clients a process for better decision making and problem solving up and down the organization . |