Example sentences of "up [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On no account should they be pushed straight up or in a jerky movement . |
| 2 | ‘ Hell , it 's a nicer place to end up than in a cut-price bin at the local record store . ’ |
| 3 | He stood for a moment , looking up and down the dark street before quietly entering the passage . |
| 4 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 5 | While the equipment is being set up people come in from their work outside and visitors start arriving from up and down the Whanganui river . |
| 6 | I mean , erm she actually then chooses to walk up and down the third storey erm couple of pages later , Jane , when she wants a bit of solitude . |
| 7 | This is an example of a patient who has a stable cystometogram and in the course of the voiding study voids with a high pressure , the stylus is going up and down the whole time |
| 8 | he were running up and down the little bugger ! |
| 9 | With dusk , I was forced to leave the tavern , and paced up and down the muddy street for warmth . |
| 10 | She looked up and down the quiet street , where the lights made golden leafy spaces in the trees . |
| 11 | going up and down the same place every day |
| 12 | Up and down the old ironing board . |
| 13 | Cars speed up and down the twisty road at all hours and residents and visitors frequently park vehicles on the road restricting access . |
| 14 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 15 | Men sat outside the cafés discussing business , chatting or playing briscola , a card game , as they sipped glasses of lambrusco , while we young girls walked up and down the main street and through the square on what was called the passeggiata , the promenade , hoping that we attracted the eyes of the boys who gathered in little groups . |
| 16 | He was detained on Saturday , 30th December , the same day that Mattiya and Otini Kambona were picked up and at the same time as the closure of Ulimwengu was announced . |
| 17 | Then they hit the main road and he opened the bike up and for an awful second she thought she was going to slide off the back . |
| 18 | In an instant the cripple lurched up and with a powerful twist of his crutch sent the end of the log into the water . |
| 19 | She closed her eyes again , wondering how long , and then opened them wide , staring in disbelief as he withdrew from her , his act far from complete , got up and with the purest gesture of impatience she had ever seen , threw an Oriental robe of some kind in garish , tribal colours , around his shoulders . |
| 20 | Yeah , but he does n't have , he does n't have to be noted in the score book , that he was no balled for a , for a beamer , but out of interest perhaps he was letting him er , so Giles there , there , left-hander , played some lovely strokes in the first innings , was n't in for long , then Shaw goes down on his knees there up and outside the old stump , he 's playing backwards , the ball goes through to Russell . |
| 21 | The other is some Java Moss which I already have in large quantities and which grows anywhere and everywhere I find , tucked into every crevice and gap in the rockwork , with a couple of large potted vallis plants , which if our specimens here are anything to go by will grow up and along the full length of the tank without excessive care . |
| 22 | Adam was thrown forward , up and over the shattered windscreen and on to the bonnet . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think they might be quite interested in the way we 're bringing up great sedimentary land masses from the south , and driving them up and over the geosynclinal rocks in their path . ’ |
| 24 | Up and into a small office . |
| 25 | And on all those issues I think the industry itself has pulled itself up and through the National Tourist Boards we are going to promote it very hard indeed over the four week period . |
| 26 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 27 | The Governors will require that the School Buildings and premises connected therewith be kept up and in a good state of repair . |
| 28 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 29 | Tension in the neck and shoulders can be eased by circling the shoulders up and around a few times backwards and forwards and by circling your head slowly down to your chest and then up so that your neck is stretched with your chin in the air . |
| 30 | The other irony is of course that up until at the previous congresses like Verona erm Britain had n't attended . |