Example sentences of "up and [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had arrived from Harehills on the up and up with the booming coal industry . |
| 2 | She took the stairs at a run , up and up to the attic she slept in . |
| 3 | But the pull on his soulless mind was too strong now , and he felt himself being drawn up and up into a vast emptiness , and into the endless skies of infinity . |
| 4 | ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches . |
| 5 | Each of them must tread on and on , a ceaseless , bone-grinding trudge , if they did not want to be taken up and up by the gyrating treadmill into the clanking , turning cogs in the roof and ground to dust between the pinions . |
| 6 | ‘ This is all you 'll get from me , ’ she cried , coming up and around with a swiftness born of wild desperation . |
| 7 | With a muffled cry of rage at her own weakness , Isabel shoved furiously at fitzAlan 's broad shoulder with one hand and brought the other up and around with the full force of her arm behind it . |
| 8 | Even if he makes it he wo n't be up and around for a month at least . ’ |
| 9 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 10 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 11 | One false feint to the groin , then up and round in a semi-arc to slice the enemy between helmet and hauberk . |
| 12 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 13 | Their car skidded in gravel , flipped up and over like a pancake and lodged itself in a sundered tank . |
| 14 | The hammer-blow force of the lethal chungdan ap-chagi foot-strike , catapulted Baal 's body up and over in a backward flip , his rib-cage crushed and imploded into his ruptured lungs . |
| 15 | The moment the alarm clock went off Maggie was up and out of the cavity bed she slept in . |
| 16 | During filming , we even saw eggs being pushed up and out of the nest while the reed warbler host was still sitting on them . |
| 17 | Once again , Charlie scrambled up and out of the trench only yards behind . |
| 18 | She intended to pick up her cases and proceed with what she was here to do , go up and out into the street and thence to Streatham Street to find the hotel . |
| 19 | Her collection of outdoor treasures shot to the ground as in a single movement she leapt up and out between the trees . |
| 20 | Finding the point is not easy , and the gully walls are vertical elsewhere , so if in doubt continue up and back to the source of the gullies . |
| 21 | That was what that band on the map was , that zone of blue bending up and back like a water pipe , the river . |
| 22 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 23 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 24 | They 'd be going up and down between the aisles as well . |
| 25 | And , anyway , I only cruised up and down outside the house twice just to make sure there was no one lying in wait . |
| 26 | The cockerel stood braced , shrilling its cry out into the mist , answering other calls from other compounds up and down across the hillside . |
| 27 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 28 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 29 | They come in here for one orange juice and they 're up and down to the loos five times in one night with different blokes . ’ |
| 30 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |