Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv prt] on [art] [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 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 3 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 4 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |