Example sentences of "up and down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not dance up and down about poor Poll ; it would not help her . |
| 2 | Are the doorways wide enough for a wheelchair , can you go easily from one room to another , is the floor level throughout the flat , or are there steps up and down to various rooms ? |
| 3 | I 'm not sure I could stand shlapping up and down to that bloody clinic time and time again . |
| 4 | The story is told of two top executives from different agencies who would wave to each other , one from his chauffeur driven Jaguar and the other from his Porsche , as they passed on the M4 when buzzing up and down to important clients . |
| 5 | Temperature can be controlled over the range 120 to 770 K , either isothermally or more normally by ramping up and down at various fixed rates . |
| 6 | Their shoulders shake , hinging up and down on well-oiled ball-and-socket joints made of stainless steel . |
| 7 | And the idea is that you step up and down on those and that 's your exercise , well you can do that on the bottom of your stirs for nothing . |
| 8 | Below the boulevard is the river , the Gave de Pau , and on its northern bank , the railway station , with its attendant installations — you can get up and down on this side by free funicular . |
| 9 | I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith . |
| 10 | and they stand there sort of bouncing up and down on this canvass thing , you know , sort of like this then she goes ooh ooh , and her bleeding leg comes up in the air |
| 11 | Flight graceful , rather slow , with the body appearing to move up and down with each rather exaggerated wing-beat ; may soar high . |
| 12 | Releasing Isabel 's face , he stepped away from her , his hard eyes raking her up and down with casual appraisal . |
| 13 | I had a bit of an up and down with one of your ilk only about an hour ago . ’ |
| 14 | He looked his offending offspring up and down with angry eyes . |
| 15 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 16 | I walked up and down for two or three minutes , then I said : ‘ Henry , go back to these men . |
| 17 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 18 | It is mowed by one man walking up and down for 54 green miles . |
| 19 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 20 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 21 | They look like some sort of animal , bouncing up and down like that . |
| 22 | Ear drum instead of being straight up and down like that , it 's pushed a way out , |
| 23 | ‘ You 're wasting an awful lot of energy hopping up and down like that . ’ |
| 24 | No wonder the women get tired having to crouch them up and down like that |
| 25 | In terms of a classical wave picture of light the electrons would all be agitated by the electromagnetic radiation , bobbing up and down like anchored buoys in an ocean swell . |
| 26 | I 'll have to pa I 'll have to pack this running up and down like this . |
| 27 | Well , well you do anyway when you see them on telly and they 're all hanging round the , you know , the , the A N C meetings they all go up and down like this |
| 28 | Off the lead and it was er , so boisterous up and down like this , well he did n't like it straight away he got the old aggro blade up his back about two inches wide |
| 29 | There seem to be large quantities of path finders going up and down like those . |
| 30 | Certainly in the class-room those from two feet to two feet only go straight up and down in all changements , soubresauts and entrechats with both legs fully extended at the height of the jump . |