Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , up the lads and down the hatch . |
| 2 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 3 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 4 | For some unknown reason prickles sprang up all over her shoulders and down the length of both arms . |
| 5 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 6 | Water comes through the roof seams through the windscreen frame and can even come around the rear vents and down the roof side rails to fall on the driver 's knee when braking . |
| 7 | He deliberately pushed his chair so that it fell over , walked down the stage steps and up the gangway of the auditorium . |
| 8 | His blue shirt , open at the neck and showing a mat of black hair , was wet with sweat in the armpits and down the back . |
| 9 | On the one hand they must move along the lines and down the page ; on the other they must be still if you are to read a word . |
| 10 | in their black nets and down the mountainside |
| 11 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 12 | However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front . |
| 13 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 14 | Undertown was designed as a summer holiday house , facing south towards the dunes and up the Camel Estuary , with a view across the golf links to the church of St Enodoc and Brae Hill beyond . |
| 15 | In the stunned silence that followed , Patrick raced up the stairs and down the hall and had the door open and was actually in the room before another word had been spoken . |
| 16 | Alexandra nodded and went quietly up the stairs and down the landing , past the bowls of pot-pourri and prints of wild flowers framed in black and gold , to her own room . |
| 17 | Her hair was crawling with insects ; they clung to her eyebrows and eyelashes , were sucked into her nostrils and swarmed into the crevices and cornices of her ears , into all the narrow loops and whorls , they poured in a dark river down the back of her dress between her shoulderblades and down the front between her breasts . |
| 18 | Yvonne and I at South Queensferry a couple of summers ago , across the road from the Hawes Inn at the slipway underneath the tall stone piers of the rail-bridge , the mile-wide river bright before us , people promenading along pavements and down the pier , an occasional smell of frying onions from the snack bar beside the Inshore Lifeboat shed . |
| 19 | They drove through the gates and up the avenue of ancient lime trees . |
| 20 | There was no sign of the dog as they made haste through the alders and up the field to the first hedgerow . |
| 21 | The beds are cramped together along the walls and down the centre of the ward . |
| 22 | We joined the surge out through the doors and down the marble stairs . |
| 23 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |