Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 33 | Customers collect a basket or trolley at the entrance and then walk up and down the aisles selecting goods . |
| 34 | The final insult came when one player stripped to his underpants and ran up and down the aisles . |
| 35 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 36 | On either side of the steep trail down again , at the end of the hill , grazing ponies lined the track — presumably filling in time between summers , when they earn their living giving children rides up and down the beach . |
| 37 | He swept his friends into his arms and the shouting multiplied and reverberated on and on , up and down the beach and through the distant war-broken theatre of Salamis . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 40 | If the wave front approaches parallel to a coastline sand and shingle merely move up and down the beach , but under the more usual conditions of oblique approach the movement is not quite so simple . |
| 41 | The overall volume of transport decreases both up and down the beach from this zone . |
| 42 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 43 | He is ridden up and down the hills at home and , when the weather is reasonable , taken for gallops once or twice a week . |
| 44 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 45 | 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 ) . |
| 46 | Prior to the application to Council a research programme financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample years from the Gloucester port books succeeded in devising a database capable of storing and retrieving information about the voyages of boats passing up and down the Severn through Gloucester and the cargoes they carried . |
| 47 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 48 | Our expert tasters , the million cuppa men — they 've all drunk a million cups of tea — go up the northbound carriageway and down the south and assess all on their qualities . |
| 49 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 50 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Throughout the match rumour of a reprieve had chased up and down the stand . |
| 53 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 54 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 55 | Pulling the cover up over her mother 's shoulders , Maura crept from the room and down the stain . |
| 56 | The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen . |
| 57 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 58 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 59 | The paw prints highlight the fleece side of the jacket on braiding which runs across the chest , up and down the sleeves and across the back . |
| 60 | 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 ’ . |