Example sentences of "up [coord] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a modern diaphragm valve , it may only be necessary to move the float up or down on the serrated spindle connected to the valve arm |
| 2 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 3 | We had arrived from Harehills on the up and up with the booming coal industry . |
| 4 | ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches . |
| 5 | Each of them must tread on and on , a ceaseless , bone-grinding trudge , if they did not want to be taken up and up by the gyrating treadmill into the clanking , turning cogs in the roof and ground to dust between the pinions . |
| 6 | With a muffled cry of rage at her own weakness , Isabel shoved furiously at fitzAlan 's broad shoulder with one hand and brought the other up and around with the full force of her arm behind it . |
| 7 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 8 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 9 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 10 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 11 | It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano . |
| 12 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |
| 13 | A tiny , rotund figure was stamping up and down on the daubed green of the false ground , like a drunken redneck at a hoedown , or an aboriginal at a corroboree . |
| 14 | Street upon street of small Chinese shopfront , a Manhattan-like skyline and junks bobbing up and down on the busy harbour from indelible images of this British colony . |
| 15 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 16 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 17 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 18 | He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny , enjoying every minute of it . |
| 19 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |
| 20 | She held the pole two handed , as if administering the death thrust with Excalibur , plunging it up and down in the soggy mass with a ferocity that had little to do with getting the clothes clean . |
| 21 | There are more ways to step up and down from the specially-made benches than you could possibly imagine , and , for the puny-armed , the well thought out choreography incorporates upper body work , too . |
| 22 | ‘ Look there , ’ he said , pointing to where the ‘ gay ’ girls of Station Road shivered , stamped their feet , and walked morosely up and down beneath the flaring gas . |