Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er then there was others sort of cheap joints you know , they just rushed things up and just a couple of just er When you see some of th You know that goodwill shop that that the thing when you when you see a lot of the things that 's supposed to be polished , you know , they 're just varnished over . |
| 2 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 3 | It is the only inland funicular railway in this country , and is still in operation , its cars travelling up and down a gradient of 1–1½ and worked nowadays by electric motor . |
| 4 | So I removed a rubber-handled wrench from the tool kit — a souvenir of a summer working on rich people 's yachts in southern Ireland — and weighed it up and down a couple of times . |
| 5 | ‘ Drive up and down a couple of times , check the area . ’ |
| 6 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 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 | Dyson lingered , and he and Lewis found still more to say to one another , strolling up and down the cloister of New Buildings . |
| 11 | The Judge raised his noose again , while the rats ran desperately up and down the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 12 | Judi took her hands out of her pockets , and brushed her fingers up and down the front of her waistcoat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is also worthy of note that East Prussian amber was being traded among hunter-fisher communities over extensive tracts of Finland , the East Baltic countries and north-east Russia as far as Lake Onega and the Upper Volga , as well as up and down the coast of western Norway , at a time when Neolithic farming communities were being established in south Scandinavia . |
| 15 | The process necessitates rings of light oscillating up and down the body of the robot . |
| 16 | ‘ Someone help Caroline , please , ’ Miss Fazackerly cried , rushing up and down the line of children like a sheep dog . |
| 17 | He looked up and down the line of faces . |
| 18 | These were subdivided into smaller fields and a cropping rotation devised with the objective of moving production up and down the length of the strip . |
| 19 | There were no solid divisions between neighbours , and the children played up and down the length of the house . |
| 20 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 21 | A short horizontal bar slid up and down the length of the rod . |
| 22 | Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus . |
| 23 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 24 | Communicate effectively with colleagues , both up and down the chain of responsibility , to help ensure that risk management activities are sufficiently comprehensive and understood . |
| 25 | But I think that has now been tightened up and indeed the log of which I speak , and the audit manual has indeed increased the awareness of officers , increased their care in the handling of personal data , and the number of complaints is in fact reducing . |