Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [conj] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian walked quickly across the lawn from the diocesan office towards the Cathedral , weaving in and out the groups of tourists , many of them Dutch , who visited the town in summer . |
| 2 | Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped . |
| 3 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | You 'll have to break yourself of the habit of bobbing up and down every time my daughter appears , especially when she looks like this . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He also confirmed Lewis ' findings , being able to detect seven bands on most large standing stones , and considered that these were ‘ tapping points into a spiral release of some kind of energy that moved up and down the stone , following the lunar cycle ’ . |
| 7 | The little children moved up and down the court playing their own private games . |
| 8 | They moved up and down the keys . |
| 9 | Tony 's fingers moved up and down the piano keys . |
| 10 | Daniel paced up and down the polished floor from one end of the long room to the other ; his sentences bore the rehearsed solemnity of a stage drama . |
| 11 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 12 | As he paced up and down the narrow kitchen , shouting curses through the bedroom door , Constance smiled . |
| 13 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 14 | The Shah paced up and down the room . |
| 15 | Jonathan paced up and down the bedroom . |
| 16 | Much more fun are the hydrofoils which ply up and down the lake . |
| 17 | When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second . |
| 18 | Charlie could hear rifles being cocked up and down the trenches as sleepy men quickly came to life . |
| 19 | Paul Young , beside himself with excitement , was leaping up and down the hall , singing at the top of his voice . |
| 20 | But , not yet used to leaping up and down the ladder , she was slower and more careful . |
| 21 | The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line . |
| 22 | Well do I remember walking up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco , and also attending a performance of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , with that debonair veteran Frenchman Pierre Montreux conducting . |
| 23 | Her eldest brother Mickey was walking up and down the room talking , his face set in a dark scowl . |
| 24 | Two buskers were playing banjos , walking up and down the line , while a dwarf scampered in and out of the waiting cinema-goers with an outstretched hand , cajoling money from the queue . |
| 25 | ‘ But you must know ! ’ says Howard to Felicity , walking up and down the living-room and clutching an amazed hand to his forehead . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't care for myself , ’ he tells Felicity , walking up and down the kitchen as she prepares dinner . |
| 27 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 28 | Sometimes he would be climbing up and down a cliff and he found himself stuck , unable to get higher and unable to climb down and once he was left clinging on a ledge for ever . |
| 29 | After that , it was simply a matter of having a strong wind , the sailors climbing up and down the rigging , adjusting the sail to catch every breeze and puff of air while look-outs were posted high above the mast . |
| 30 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |