Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni turned away in confusion as Guido simply went on smiling , bobbing up and down unrepentantly in the water , his dark hair plastered like strands of silk to his forehead , quite obviously thoroughly enjoying her confusion . |
| 2 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 3 | And down here on the side in front of me now you got Super , Super Nesh yo , and that 's a , the , that 's the one what comes from America . |
| 4 | Selkirk laughed at them , jumping up and down here in the taproom . |
| 5 | Athelstan stood , walking up and down just beneath the dais , his fingers to his lips . |
| 6 | Both saints were subjected to the elaborate canonisation procedure before their names were added to the roll up yonder , and down yonder in the Vatican . |
| 7 | The sun was already hot on her face , and down below in the garden two doves stalked the lawn , looking for titbits . |
| 8 | A light bobbed up and down further along the corridor , accompanied by the sound of running footsteps . |
| 9 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 10 | She jumped up and down experimentally in the briny , took a step further full of confidence , then further and further still . |
| 11 | Charlotte had bought a pocket cassette player before leaving New York and listened to the tape of Beatrix 's conversation with Maurice over and over again during the five-hour rail journey to Boston . |
| 12 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 13 | The tune was Jack be Nimble , Jack be Quick played over and over again on the ‘ cordion ’ . |
| 14 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 15 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 16 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 17 | By way of background to what follows , I must first state my position on two related issues , since they are issues that may arise over and over again in the discussion of education at the present time . |
| 18 | I should have liked to trample on the face of the first German I could find and kick him over and over again in the stomach . |
| 19 | Histories of debilitating ailments and depression such as Renate 's occur over and over again in the RCM records . |
| 20 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 21 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 22 | The same Oxbridge colleges figure over and over again in the biographies of these and many other singers . |
| 23 | The significance of the election of the collector of supply for parliamentary politics is emphasised over and over again by the politicians in their correspondence . |
| 24 | The names of many people are recorded on documents signed at Halling and these names are repeated over and over again by the historians . |
| 25 | I have attended many feminist seminars , workshops and group discussions about language , and there are certain folklinguistic assertions that I have heard over and over again from the ( nonlinguist ) women present . |
| 26 | From the Lamb it is on and up again to the Shoulder of Mutton for the last pint , and then the long pull up to the finish at the Dog and Gun . |
| 27 | Maxim bypassed the village completely map-reading George up a third road above the farm and they left the car there with perhaps a quarter-mile walk down into the valley and up again to the cottage . |
| 28 | ‘ Why , that 's no great problem while we remain at the abbot 's lodging , since half of Shrewsbury and a good part of the shire goes in and out freely at the abbey , and you may ask an audience whenever you will , and always find yourself one of three or four , various enough to keep any man in countenance . |
| 29 | Yelling the news to Douglas , who was swording with Sir Walter Comyn , Ramsay dashed through the struggling mass of men back for the stairway , Down he raced , two steps at a time , and out again into the night . |
| 30 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |