Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] the [noun] [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 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 3 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Sometimes the tribe 's Big'uns recognised their old leader as he stomped up and down the battle lines bawling at his lads . |
| 13 | The passing out parade was held on Saturday , 23 February 1918 , which ended with Charlie marching his section up and down the parade ground keeping step with the regimental band , and for the first time feeling like a soldier even if Tommy still resembled a sack of potatoes . |
| 14 | It lumbered its way up and down the ramp systems , infiltrating the DEEP living spaces . |
| 15 | I scrambled back down the ratlines , rushed to the cockpit and down the companionway hatch . |
| 16 | Once they are set up and down the field groups can be interlocked , and figures united by gesture and look . |
| 17 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 18 | Thousands of fans up and down the country plan one minute 's peaceful demonstration to coincide with weekend kickoffs . |
| 19 | Up and down the country factory meetings debated the agreements and rejected them overwhelmingly . |
| 20 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 21 | We joined the surge out through the doors and down the marble stairs . |
| 22 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 23 | They went through the French window at the end of the room , and down the stone steps into the garden . |
| 24 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 25 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 26 | For 1,000 years the Venetian Republic stood in the forefront of naval power and development , and down the generations ships of every kind , warlike and peaceful , simple and grandiose , displayed themselves to the world in these waters . |
| 27 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 28 | As we togged up and down the Seefeld baby slopes learning how to sno-plough and how to get up when you failed to sno-plough , it became apparent that this was , with or without ganglion , perhaps not going to be Jack 's Number One sport . |
| 29 | During summer loose pack ice from the Arctic Ocean streams southward through the Greenland Sea and down the east Greenland coast ; lesser streams pass from the Barents Sea to the Norwegian Sea and from Baffin Bay down the Labrador coast , ultimately to melt in the warmer waters of the north Atlantic Ocean . |
| 30 | Sailing takes place up and down the east coast . |