Example sentences of "run up and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They run up and down the organisation carrying messages and information and in the past we 've had lots of them because it was the only way of passing information . |
| 2 | Great coldness and chills run up and down the back ; pains can go up the back too . |
| 3 | Slow onset ; gradual fever and chilliness which may run up and down the back ; feels very heavy and tired , so he is motionless , apathetic , drowsy , dislikes disturbances ; thirstless ; watery coryza which burns the upper lip ; occipital dull heavy headache ; sometimes a harsh croupy cough ; chills and heats chase each other ; sneezing ; sore throat ; face dark red , swollen with a besotted look ; ptosis ; so tired , weak and feels stupid . |
| 4 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet and began to run up and down the garden , shrieking , turning cartwheels , hopping on one leg . |
| 5 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 6 | The next night Geoffrey Appleyard went in alone , and after scouting round for the two agents he was to meet , he abandoned all caution , running up and down the beach shouting for them and waving his torch . |
| 7 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 8 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 9 | Lights were running up and down the board . |
| 10 | 1804 It has now been represented to the Meeting that the Town of Bowmore is very much annoy 'd by a destructive Crowd of Pigs running up and down the Streets , and that many of the Inhabitants , regardless of Property . |
| 11 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 12 | Horses which a moment before were just off the pace crashed into the leaders , tipping off their riders and running up and down the fence , preventing any of the horses following from getting over it . |
| 13 | When Palace beat Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final in 1990 at Villa Park , Ian was running up and down the touchline on the final whistle in his plaster cast , joining in the celebrations , broken leg or not . |
| 14 | The mouth emptied and Martin knelt between the open legs , his hands running up and down the thighs hair under his hands bristling and tickling almost . |
| 15 | Do n't let your child play dangerously , turning around on ladders , running up and down the slide , turning the roundabout too fast . |
| 16 | Sammy was running up and down the pathway and yelping up at them . |
| 17 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 18 | I got drunk on rhum by myself at the Rotonde and ran up and down the streets crying and ringing bells and saying ‘ Save me from this man ! ’ |
| 19 | The final insult came when one player stripped to his underpants and ran up and down the aisles . |
| 20 | As no one wanted me in the cabin , my poor mother , who hated coal dust , had to sleep with me on deck while thousands of ‘ natives ’ ran up and down the gangway with baskets of nutty slack on their heads . |
| 21 | If Alex James just ran up and down the pitch a couple of times and said , ‘ Right , that 's my lot for today ’ , Whittaker knew the reason he could n't do any more was because his legs were covered in bruises , as they frequently were . |
| 22 | Ignoring her O'Hara ran up and down the pavement waving his arms , trying to attract Stella 's attention . |