Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foliage was achieved by allowing the cutter to run up and down in the timber . |
| 2 | She was pacing up and down in the house , was hostile to other family members and was shouting at voices that she ( and no-one else ) heard . |
| 3 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 5 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 6 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 7 | The box shows the current colour , containing the figure 1 , will adjust to the shade as you move the bars up and down in the paint pot . |
| 8 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 9 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 10 | From the pilot 's seat one gets an unusual view , through the ( intentional ) hole in the rocker cover , of the valves going up and down in the port cylinder . |
| 11 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 13 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 14 | She held the pole two handed , as if administering the death thrust with Excalibur , plunging it up and down in the soggy mass with a ferocity that had little to do with getting the clothes clean . |
| 15 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 16 | The vicar paced behind , holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door . |
| 17 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 18 | He explained that the lager was manufactured by the Danes , an ancient seafaring people , to be drunk straight out of the can , so that the bubbles would move straight up and down in the stomach to counteract the sideways rocking movement of the boat . |
| 19 | He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny , enjoying every minute of it . |
| 20 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 21 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 22 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |