Example sentences of "up [coord] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 2 | Rather , the carrier frequency swoops up or down about an octave . |
| 3 | How many times have you seen a horse with his head tied in with draw reins at a show and as soon as the gadget is removed his head shoots up or down in an effort to stretch the neck . |
| 4 | ‘ This is all you 'll get from me , ’ she cried , coming up and around with a swiftness born of wild desperation . |
| 5 | Even if he makes it he wo n't be up and around for a month at least . ’ |
| 6 | One false feint to the groin , then up and round in a semi-arc to slice the enemy between helmet and hauberk . |
| 7 | He found his hands full of dry , papery skin which , as he worked his way closer to her windpipe , came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough . |
| 8 | Their car skidded in gravel , flipped up and over like a pancake and lodged itself in a sundered tank . |
| 9 | That was what that band on the map was , that zone of blue bending up and back like a water pipe , the river . |
| 10 | The clothes were boiled in a copper over a wood fire , rubbed up and down on a wash board , then squeezed through a hand-turned mangle . |
| 11 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 12 | Physically they are amazing , you can jump up and down on a cockroach , and they still get up and walk away . |
| 13 | Off home to jump up and down on a picture of Long John Silver . |
| 14 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 15 | There 's these springy sort of things bouncing up and down on a string like they 're alive . |
| 16 | Spence later caused £681 worth of damage when he jumped up and down on an Escort . |
| 17 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 18 | He got up and down with a pitch to a yard , and holed from ten feet at the fifteenth and eighteenth to make the top 20 . |
| 19 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 20 | He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed . |
| 21 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 22 | ( ii ) Pipette small groups of embryos ( 3–4 ) up and down through a micropipette with a bore slightly less than the diameter of the embryos . |
| 23 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 24 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 25 | She levered his arm up and down like a pump handle , then turning to the card players said : ‘ Bob , Joe , Mr Loveitt , Dr Plumb , ladies … you know Mr Godschalk from Bretyard and Pope Insurance Office . ’ |
| 26 | Pike was on the other , jumping up and down like a man with a swarm of bees in his underpants . |
| 27 | Too busy jumping up and down like a lunatic ( along with the rest of most of the crowd ) . |
| 28 | The wave has no difficulty in going through both slits and provides a " choppy sea " on which the particle bobs up and down like a cork . |
| 29 | A fair swell was running , and the boat bobbed up and down like a cork on the surface . |
| 30 | ‘ That could be a matter for debate , ’ she said with curt emphasis , watching him prowl up and down like a shark testing the boundaries of a tank . |