Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 2 | Do you have to say an N two would you round up or round down to be sure ? |
| 3 | Rich in vegetables and complex carbohydrates , they fill you up and not out . |
| 4 | It goes up and straight down l and you ca n't stay up erm in the water , you go straight under and you do n't find yourself in the middle erm of the pool where it actually comes in you find yourself being pressed against the wall by the water pressure |
| 5 | Is he really to appear as if tripping himself up and thus about to fall ? |
| 6 | Now there are cars parked right the way up and even on to the roundabout , and I think a lot of these erm persons erm with the cars are probably from the Polytechnic . |
| 7 | Hopefully today we 'll get an answer because the first eleven samples it said that the conductivity up and down up and down |
| 8 | Up and down up and down all night . |
| 9 | A pair of sharp black eyes looked her up and down out of the most wasted features Miss Kyte had ever seen . |
| 10 | A sudden change of éaulement , an unusual turn in-out of legs or arms , or quick jumps up and then down to the floor followed by a roll over or even a somersault can accentuate the particular place that unusual movement has in the whole design . |
| 11 | As you do so , take your arms up and then down to rest on the floor above your head . |
| 12 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 13 | Blackberry , alert and intelligent , looking first up and then down the ditch before he crossed it . |
| 14 | He used the chainsword as a mountaineer uses an ice pick : he clung to the platform with his left hand , and brought the chainsword up and then down again , grinding it into the metal structure of the vehicle and pulling himself forward centimetre by centimetre . |
| 15 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 16 | What they usually do is they go up and then back down by the church |
| 17 | Should go all the way up and then back down should n't it ? |
| 18 | He said twenty in that , I said yeah I 've already done it , so I 've dished it up and then out comes the |
| 19 | Pay them their wages pick Teresa up and then out , and then out to us . |
| 20 | When reaching it 's a compromise between those two extremes , halfway up and halfway down . |
| 21 | My soul did hang as in a pair of scales , sometimes up and sometimes down , now in peace and anon in terror . ’ |
| 22 | UP BUT NOT UNDER |