Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws . |
2 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
3 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
4 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
5 | Once they are set up and down the field groups can be interlocked , and figures united by gesture and look . |
6 | Once , on a tour of the Middle East , the gentlemen of the orchestra were watching him swim — cigar in place — up and down the hotel pool . |
7 | As we togged up and down the Seefeld baby slopes learning how to sno-plough and how to get up when you failed to sno-plough , it became apparent that this was , with or without ganglion , perhaps not going to be Jack 's Number One sport . |
8 | His hearty voice was soon familiar to and popular with many thousands of listeners up and down the west coast and he invariably ended his broadcasts with a special Good-Night wish to a different section of the community each evening , such as to June brides , to lighthouse keepers ‘ out there in the dark ’ , or to all dentists who might be ‘ looking down in the mouth ’ . |
9 | Thousands of fans up and down the country plan one minute 's peaceful demonstration to coincide with weekend kickoffs . |
10 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
11 | Up and down the country factory meetings debated the agreements and rejected them overwhelmingly . |
12 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
13 | The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen . |
14 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
15 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
16 | Sometimes the tribe 's Big'uns recognised their old leader as he stomped up and down the battle lines bawling at his lads . |
17 | It lumbered its way up and down the ramp systems , infiltrating the DEEP living spaces . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
20 | The passing out parade was held on Saturday , 23 February 1918 , which ended with Charlie marching his section up and down the parade ground keeping step with the regimental band , and for the first time feeling like a soldier even if Tommy still resembled a sack of potatoes . |
21 | Up and down the City Road , |
22 | Up and down the lift shafts , in and out of the telephone switchboard … . ’ |
23 | Tony 's fingers moved up and down the piano keys . |
24 | This option enables you to display a list of a user 's immediate relations , both up and down the family tree . |
25 | Sailing takes place up and down the east coast . |
26 | The old barges , who had once beaten their way up and down the East coast and the Channel ports , grumbled and heaved at their cables while their new owners sat back in peace . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | It would have been enormous fun , she thought wistfully , to help work Water Gypsy up and down the canal system . |
29 | They 'd search the glass-tip , the marl-hole , the brickyard , and they 'd go up and down the canal tow-path , looking under the bridges . |