Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] the [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 | Slide the chord shape up or down the fretboard into various keys and the scale goes with it , so to speak . |
| 3 | Tickling in the pit of the throat or down the centre of the chest to the stomach , causes coughing and may be with a congested head and wrenching pains in the right of the chest . |
| 4 | They are executed by drawing a finger rapidly up or down the strings . |
| 5 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 6 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 7 | The effect of this profoundly important innovation was that members of Congress were required to vote up or down the administration 's complete package of cuts at the beginning of the congressional phase of the budgetary process . |
| 8 | A 15–20 minute drive by car ( included in the price ) leads to quiet beaches and , a further five minutes up or down the coast , are a stretch of interesting small resorts from Bari to Brindisi . |
| 9 | Store in a cool , light place in trays , on ropes or down the legs of old stockings . |
| 10 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
| 11 | ‘ And he 'd go away and chuck it in the bin or down the sink and come back with a new one . |
| 12 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 13 | Every morning at sunrise and every evening at sunset a flag was run up or down the flagstaff on our roof ; it was the company flag but we thought it was Fa 's . |
| 14 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 15 | On most adjustable looms the vertical beams are fixed and one or both of the horizontal beams , which hold the warp strands in place , can be moved up or down the frame . |
| 16 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 17 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 18 | Here a random and never-ending stream of gunslingers march across or up the screen . |
| 19 | yeah , and er , she gets them back and er they 've got to go through about twenty different processes before they 're allowed out the shop , or out the storage , cos even then , when they 're in store , they 're , they 're , some of them come back as cracked , you get ones coming back from er customers sort of thing , been and they come back and they 've got pins in them , they 've got bloody great er bits on the outside , of the outside . |
| 20 | She dearly wished he would look at his toes , or out the window , or anywhere but into her eyes . |
| 21 | There 's not much we can do with being in or out the building or is there ? |
| 22 | A black and vicious claw burst through the woodwork of the door with an explosive crash that echoed up and down the staircase like thunder . |
| 23 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 24 | ‘ They run up and down the organisation carrying messages and information and in the past we 've had lots of them because it was the only way of passing information . |
| 25 | Information was designed to flow up and down the organisation to ensure that all decentralised objectives were compatible with , and a part of , the total corporate objective . |
| 26 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 27 | The sliding device that enables the mast foot to be moved up and down the board . |
| 28 | Lights were running up and down the board . |
| 29 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 30 | You have to ensure that everyone is comfortable , that there is space between rows , at the front and down the aisles . |