Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
| 2 | In Method B , the amount to be paid out is a predetermined pool of money adjusted up or down in line with the year 's change in profits . |
| 3 | Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 4 | said of a ship laid up or out of commission . |
| 5 | He is looking up and out to sea in a southerly direction , and looking and listening desperately for sight or sound of Middleton — but that was not to be . |
| 6 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 7 | That was traumatic enough , but it left the ten-year-old having to get himself up and out to school in the morning . |
| 8 | Upon notice being given to the Corporation that the motor car described in the Schedule is to be laid up and out of use for a period of not less than four consecutive weeks ( otherwise than as a result of loss or damage covered by the Policy ) and subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policy will be automatically suspended as from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation except as regards loss of or damage to such motor car by fire lightning explosion theft or attempted theft and on renewal a refund of 75% of the pro rata premium for the suspended period will be deducted from the renewal premium . |
| 9 | ‘ If that happens then she could be laid up and out of circulation for a very long time . |
| 10 | That came after full-back Mike Rayer had dropped a huge up and under from Craig Brown beneath his posts and Olonga just won the touch ahead of Hill . |
| 11 | There was a Haydnish sonata , a gentle piano tracking up and back in patterns which you could half anticipate even if you 'd never heard the piece before . |
| 12 | Adapting his subject to his captive audience , he plunged at once into parliamentary small talk about the newly appointed committee , bobbing up and down between Berowne and Dalgliesh like a small craft on bumpy water . |
| 13 | The bamboo corals spiralled up like whiskers and , when I touched them , rings of light pulsed up and down between base and tip . ’ |
| 14 | God walking up and down between buckthorn and sallow and goat willow . |
| 15 | He wanted to stay in his own place but Jackie and Neville were nearly driven mad running up and down to Letchworth when all that they had to do , Jackie 's full time teaching and Nev is trying to build as many kitchens or build as many doors for millionaires as he possibly can . |
| 16 | And go up and down to London . |
| 17 | my daughter travels up and down to Glasgow cos she did n't want to stay , she wanted to be at home , |
| 18 | she must be fed up going up and down to Glasgow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The rest bobbed up and down at chin height , or remained by the bathing-machine steps . |
| 21 | ‘ My form was up and down at Manly but so was the form of the team . |
| 22 | Tommy 's over him , leaning forward with his palms against the wall , jumping up and down on Christopher 's chest , breaking every rib in his body . |
| 23 | He was , after all , proposing to jerk up and down on top of a naked woman not more than three or four strides away from a sleeping child , her child . |
| 24 | I must just jump up and down on Mrs when I see her at lunch time . |
| 25 | Gavin 's hand rubbed up and down on Janice 's lap . |
| 26 | When you have experienced past disappointments , hardship and disillusionment , you know you have been up and down on life 's waves . |
| 27 | Was always tottering up and down with glasses on ? |
| 28 | I was thrilled inside for Boro but I could not jump up and down with delight . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm black and blue from head to toe , ’ said Crawford then , ‘ I 've got eight pulled ligaments in my leg and bruises all over and , when I limp out of the theatre at night , these bloody bastards are walking up and down with signs saying ‘ English actors will be working next year — will you ? ’ . |
| 30 | He 's probably jumping up and down with fury . |