Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst episode of foul play was perpetrated by Southland lock Mark Tinnock , whose feet went up and down repeatedly in a tap-dancing motion on Lions ' flanker Richard Webster during a ruck . |
| 2 | Ronni turned away in confusion as Guido simply went on smiling , bobbing up and down unrepentantly in the water , his dark hair plastered like strands of silk to his forehead , quite obviously thoroughly enjoying her confusion . |
| 3 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 4 | Success now was of the kind associated with Henry Pelham , who during his time at the Treasury from 1749 to 1757 rescheduled almost 90 per cent of the 4 per cent debt , down to 3.5 per cent in 1750 and down again to 3 per cent by 1757 . |
| 5 | And down here on the side in front of me now you got Super , Super Nesh yo , and that 's a , the , that 's the one what comes from America . |
| 6 | Selkirk laughed at them , jumping up and down here in the taproom . |
| 7 | Athelstan stood , walking up and down just beneath the dais , his fingers to his lips . |
| 8 | Both saints were subjected to the elaborate canonisation procedure before their names were added to the roll up yonder , and down yonder in the Vatican . |
| 9 | The sun was already hot on her face , and down below in the garden two doves stalked the lawn , looking for titbits . |
| 10 | Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person . |
| 11 | A light bobbed up and down further along the corridor , accompanied by the sound of running footsteps . |
| 12 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 13 | She jumped up and down experimentally in the briny , took a step further full of confidence , then further and further still . |
| 14 | Fen looked her up and down consideringly before answering , taking in every detail of her shabby old jeans and T-shirt . |
| 15 | Creating grids with desktop publishing software is a matter of moments with most of the good packages and , once created , they can be used over and over again without ever needing to be re-drawn . |
| 16 | A RAPIST forced his victim to chant ‘ yes son ’ over and over again during a two-hour ordeal yesterday . |
| 17 | Charlotte had bought a pocket cassette player before leaving New York and listened to the tape of Beatrix 's conversation with Maurice over and over again during the five-hour rail journey to Boston . |
| 18 | We have agonized over and over again about our relatively small oil business . |
| 19 | ‘ There was n't much point in sitting down and going over and over again into what went wrong at Coventry . |
| 20 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 21 | The tune was Jack be Nimble , Jack be Quick played over and over again on the ‘ cordion ’ . |
| 22 | This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life . |
| 23 | Once off you walk over the mountains to the next town , and over again to another . |
| 24 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 25 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 26 | He repeated his stepfather 's name over and over again to no avail . |
| 27 | The association maintains that a full family history has proved over and over again to be of vital importance . |
| 28 | He asked Neil Kinnock about his plans to tax the middle-income bracket not once , not twice , but over and over again for an hour . |
| 29 | You may throw cells together at random , over and over again for a billion years , and not once will you get a conglomeration that flies or swims or burrows or runs , or does anything , even badly , that could remotely be construed as working to keep itself alive . |
| 30 | It 's part of the this way in which the computer can turn information over and over again for a different need . |