Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here , lift the leg up and down 10 times , each time raising it no further than 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 2 | Biddy drove out of town fast , and down narrow lanes into the country of wide marshland and wider skies which Nails knew existed but had never set eyes on before . |
| 3 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |
| 4 | Plodding up and down stony paths , crossing tussocky moorland and jumping streams can all make great demands on footwear . |
| 5 | The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction . |
| 6 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down 25 times . |
| 7 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down 20 times . |
| 8 | DOWNPATRICK and Down Royal executives will be keeping their fingers crossed next week that there will be strong declarations for their meetings on Wednesday and Saturday respectively . |
| 9 | er I said , er , all I said to him was that , erm , he said , he said he was going back er up , up and down most weekends to er |
| 10 | Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes . |
| 11 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down 30 times . |
| 12 | Up and down different ones , different loch and er you could see Inveraray Castle in the distance we , er after we married we went to Inveraray Castle , went over it |
| 13 | Factually , it is the operation of the port and opening of the Gillingham Gate throughout 24 hours which is calculated to attract the vehicles up and down those roads in the immediate vicinity of the port . |
| 14 | Nick got up and down three times from bunkers , at the 7th , 8th and 10th , and they were really crucial . |
| 15 | Once she had skittled up and down these steps without a second thought . |
| 16 | The signal box at Bradley Fold West , situated between Bolton and Bury , was a small but important unit miles from anywhere controlling the up and down main lines and both goods loops . |
| 17 | The gruesome story of the headless lover began early in the 1900s when Brooke End signal box controlled the up and down main lines , an up goods loop and sidings used by the pick-up trains of that period . |
| 18 | Bernard was happy to drive up and down several times in a week , but Laura felt the need for a base . |
| 19 | This is held over the blocked plug hole and worked up and down several times to force water down the waste pipe . |
| 20 | It is water-soluble so you can smudge lines together ( often with a finger ) and I find I can go over and over many times before the painting becomes ‘ muddy ’ . |
| 21 | I do n't think Lou remembers how hard we worked , but it was every weekend for 18 months , going over and over these songs until we had all these dismembered arrangements we became famous for . |
| 22 | It rolled over and over several times , preening its paws . |
| 23 | At such occasions , actors ' glasses are on and off more times than their love affairs … and millions thrill to the sound of ‘ … |
| 24 | At such occasions , actors ' glasses are on and off more times than their love affairs — and millions thrill to the sound of ‘ … |
| 25 | The pound is up at one dollar , forty-eight and up two marks , fifty . |
| 26 | They accepted with alacrity the prospect of a glimpse of the world inside , and all three of them went along dark portrait-hung corridors and up panelled staircases to the room of one Flora Piercy , a second-year History student of considerable sophistication , who offered them a glass of wine . |
| 27 | Yet every afternoon , a group of journalists weaves its way along several gloomy corridors and up various flights of stairs to a cold , windy place with impressive views over the gilded roof of the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Bridge and the River Thames . |
| 28 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 29 | But that 's through high trees and up steep hills . |
| 30 | She was obviously taking a risk as the up passenger train was almost due and up main signals had been switched to off . |