Example sentences of "and [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 2 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 3 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 7 | The vicar paced behind , holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door . |
| 8 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 12 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The foliage was achieved by allowing the cutter to run up and down in the timber . |
| 15 | And down in the mouth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 19 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 20 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 24 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | in head office and out in the field . |
| 27 | Unloved and out in the cold |
| 28 | Because no Sunday School teacher is there to see that everyone gets a prize , that no one cheats or that no one is left lonely and out in the cold , there will be casualties . |
| 29 | Then take the bad weather and out in the night , |
| 30 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |