Example sentences of "up and [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all . |
| 2 | But instead of a hosereel going up and down the field , you have a tractor and an injector . ’ |
| 3 | Guiding the plough and following the team up and down the field over the uneven ground was very hard and tiring work . |
| 4 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 5 | It is evident that the figures and groups were set up and down the field , surely very much as on the Underworld vase ; only on this wall there were scores of figures and also certainly more indications of setting . |
| 6 | Once they are set up and down the field groups can be interlocked , and figures united by gesture and look . |
| 7 | My brother and I used to sit together and drive this old horse up and down the field and throw the hay all over the place to get the sun . |
| 8 | Also , I employed my usual technique of talking a quick walk up and down the field in parallel lines and with my detector switched on . |
| 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 | Throughout the match rumour of a reprieve had chased up and down the stand . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 13 | Tuppe sat in the front passenger seat brrrming the toy car up and down the dashboard . |
| 14 | He tapped his pipe out on the edge of the gleaming spittoon and looked up and down the bar . |
| 15 | All night he parades up and down the bar like a brawny old cockerel . |
| 16 | They leapt up and down the scale like mountain goats , dancing to their own pulsing rhythm . |
| 17 | Bass , tenor , alto and soprano ; the words seemed to glide up and down the scale from moment to moment with no consistency . |
| 18 | The choice of wallpapers is enormous , with prices to match at every stage up and down the scale , but you do n't have to pay the earth to achieve a very luxurious look . |
| 19 | They were both notorious for racing up and down the Strip on their motorbikes or in flash sports cars . |
| 20 | Work up and down the head covering the entire area . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm damned sure it was an attempt to kill Tweed , ’ Kuhlmann told Newman as they again strolled up and down the concourse of the main station . |
| 23 | ‘ They run up and down the organisation carrying messages and information and in the past we 've had lots of them because it was the only way of passing information . |
| 24 | Information was designed to flow up and down the organisation to ensure that all decentralised objectives were compatible with , and a part of , the total corporate objective . |
| 25 | gashes up and down the hillside , as near as you can get to my |
| 26 | Slow onset ; gradual fever and chilliness which may run up and down the back ; feels very heavy and tired , so he is motionless , apathetic , drowsy , dislikes disturbances ; thirstless ; watery coryza which burns the upper lip ; occipital dull heavy headache ; sometimes a harsh croupy cough ; chills and heats chase each other ; sneezing ; sore throat ; face dark red , swollen with a besotted look ; ptosis ; so tired , weak and feels stupid . |
| 27 | Great coldness and chills run up and down the back ; pains can go up the back too . |
| 28 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 29 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 30 | This kind of overlayering is what produces the typical symptoms of bureaucracy in its worst form — too much passing problems up and down the system , bypassing , poor task setting , frustrated subordinates , anxious managers , wholly inadequate performance appraisals , ‘ personality problems ’ everywhere , and so forth . |