Example sentences of "and [adv prt] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And down on the previous year ? |
| 5 | I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window . |
| 6 | They rolled over and over on the damp moss , exchanging blows and vile words until finally Topaz 's strength ran out . |
| 7 | This permits the ring to move down on the line under greater tension , and up on the opposite side which would be on the outside of a turn . |
| 8 | There were hoof-marks of horses , and once or twice the slots of deer , and out on the very edge where the track was worst a narrow winding verge where travellers on foot had been forced to push their way through the undergrowth . |
| 9 | If they do , another injection , tube back down and back on the life-support machine . |
| 10 | I would go round and round on the same point , he would commiserate , pretend to understand , but never move an inch . |