Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cell cultures , while EGF strongly stimulated DNA synthesis and started EGF receptor down regulation , TAGH had only a minor effect ( 1.5×basal ) on DNA synthesis and did not interact with or down regulate the EGF receptor . |
| 2 | If you are nervous before having to use your voice , whether you are speaking to a conference or about to ask the bank manager for a loan , the first secret of success is to feel those nerves instead of tensing yourself against them . |
| 3 | He would reach up catch the chain on the left hand side with his hook — a quick pull — a plop and on came the light — and the poor chap had to circle the city again in the morning and pull down the right hand side to extinguish them . |
| 4 | Rank Hovis were now realising that the cup could be going out of their cabinet and straight into Rentokil 's , they decided to keep us playing and on came the warehouse lads , and Rentokil promptly achieved a 6-O victory . |
| 5 | And on and on went the machines , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , never slowing , never slacking , never tiring , backwards and forwards , back — |
| 6 | But these earlier records collected here have a freshness of tone , a joyful freedom on the high notes of the lyric soprano 's range , and the adaptability to move from the low tessitura and dramatic style of Sieglinde 's narrative to the tender lyricism of Massenet 's Manon or Puccini 's Angelica , then back again to ‘ Ozean , du Ungeheuer ’ and on to provide the delicacy of touch appropriate to Mozart 's Susanna and Cherubino . |
| 7 | Suddenly , great guffaws of laughter that went on and on broke the silence , so much so that people began to stretch forward to see who they were coming from . |
| 8 | She placed the hand of her other arm inside the empty jumper sleeve and waved her hand up and down creating the illusion that both her arms were inside the sleeves as normal . |
| 9 | and down came the spider and sat down behind her and frightened Miss Muffet away , there 's a spider |
| 10 | He contacted the Citizens Advice Bureau to offer his services , and down came the shutters . |
| 11 | Even here much of the relevant economic and employment data is by ‘ travel-to-work ’ area , and it is noteworthy that the Newcastle travel-to-work area , which includes both North Shields and Cramlington , extends up into Northumberland and down to include the Derwent Valley in County Durham , but does not include South Tyneside and Wear side . |
| 12 | He took his violin and played some Christmas church music and down went the bull on his knees ! |
| 13 | ‘ S. and S. Joinery , Stoke-on-Trent , ’ she snapped and down went the receiver . |
| 14 | The value of your units can go up and down reflecting the performance of the underlying investments . |
| 15 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 16 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 17 | All that and down to sign the time book by 7.20 . |
| 18 | They creaked awake and set to rousing the fire and cooking breakfast , the Hearthwares cursing the chill weight of their armour , hopping up and down to get the blood moving through their limbs . |
| 19 | Hiss go the pistons and down comes the slab of steel . |
| 20 | Back and forth flew the shuttle , clackety clack went the treadles of the loom , up and down sluiced the heddles , and the cloth grew until she had sufficient yardage for a gown ; she plied the scissors , cut out a pattern , sewed the seams and hemmed the border , and she was nearly faint with pain from the cactus pricks festering in her hands and halfway up her arms . |
| 21 | The door to the Emerald Suite flew open and in darted the monster-Meh'Lindi . |
| 22 | Within three decades , the house of the Kyburgs had died out , and in marched the Habsburgs . |
| 23 | A few years down the road and along come the fitness men with their clipboards and stop-watches . |
| 24 | Concerned , we asked why and over came the five-year-old 's reply : ‘ Oh , because we 're not allowed to have any more babies ! ’ |
| 25 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 26 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 27 | Carver had tapped keys and up came the data on the Lennox girl . |
| 28 | ( b ) For emphasis : Down came the rain and up went the umbrellas . |
| 29 | At the end of every round off came the gold knob and up went the stick . |
| 30 | Sure enough , the twenty-minute time pencils activated the detonators and up went the aircraft . |