Example sentences of "and [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 3 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 4 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 8 | The vicar paced behind , holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door . |
| 9 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 10 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 11 | " 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 14 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes . |
| 17 | The foliage was achieved by allowing the cutter to run up and down in the timber . |
| 18 | And down in the mouth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 22 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 23 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 24 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
| 25 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 26 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 27 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
| 28 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 29 | The most important ones are often the most inaccessible : under the floorboards near to airbricks and up in the loft space near to the eaves . |
| 30 | in head office and out in the field . |