Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 2 | He looks me up and down rather ruefully . |
| 3 | The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van . |
| 4 | I can very well see such prices going down and down and down well certainly to several hundred pounds . |
| 5 | The mercenary looked them up and down once again , saw the almost joyful light in Isay 's eyes , and then glanced at his own men behind him . |
| 6 | Replacing his spectacles a final time , he looked me up and down once more and said : " You will be going out to meet the public every day , you know . |
| 7 | She looked Robyn up and down once more . |
| 8 | Challenger 's 12 independent hydrogas units allow the wheels to travel up and down much further than with Chieftain 's bogie -type suspension , thus greatly reducing the accelerations that the vehicle itself undergoes . |
| 9 | And the jib goes up and down quite easily . |
| 10 | The fluctuations in Scottish support for political nationalism would suggest that the sense of Scottish identity , separateness from the English and resentment against England , has bounced up and down quite unsystematically since the last war . |
| 11 | Make it a team if you like you know get all the all the other bits of stuff that you know all the other knowledge get that coming in all working together so the whole thing just flows up and down nicely instead of |
| 12 | Keeping your knees flat on the floor , bring your head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible with elbows pointing outwards . |
| 13 | Sitting with legs outstretched , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 14 | With legs together and knees flat on the floor , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 15 | Sitting as shown , bring the head and shoulders forwards and down as far as possible . |
| 16 | Sitting with legs together and knees flat on the floor , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 17 | Sitting with legs outstretched , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the Laffer curve constructed for the UK by the London Business School , and work by Minford in the UK and Lindsey in the US , do indicate that reductions in the composite rate of tax below 60% and down as far as around 45% , have strong incentive effects on output — the converse of rises in tax rate between 45 and 60% having strong disincentive effects . |
| 19 | And so the wages went up and down annually like as distinct from monthly , which was a bit of a job for the employers to adjust every month . |
| 20 | Well if you have the footnote bible like I 've got here , you look down the bottom and speaks about those who are beggars , beggars for the spirit and just at the bottom of our road where we live er there 's a little area there which quite busy and er there 's a man who parades up and down there daily , he 's there nonstop every day of the week , you can go by there any time , any day and he 's there begging and he has no shame at all , and if you refuse him once he 'll catch you another day and he 'll ask you again , and you 'll see him there backwards and forwards and he 'll even when the traffic lights turn red |
| 21 | They then scan the tip across the sample , keeping the current constant by moving the tip up and down very slightly . |
| 22 | From here , move it up and down very slightly — no more than 6ins ( 15cm ) — and repeat 20 times . |
| 23 | From here , move it up and down very slightly — no more than 6ins ( 15cm ) — and repeat 25 times . |
| 24 | From here , move the leg up and down very slightly 25 times . |
| 25 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down very slightly , 15 times . |
| 26 | Wull pulled his own sleeve up and down very quickly . |
| 27 | The ship moved up and down very quickly , and Daniel sat in a chair beside the woman . |
| 28 | Stretch the upper arm up and over even further than yesterday . |
| 29 | The arguments that were current in 1973 about our membership of the Community have been rehearsed over and over again today in the same vein . |
| 30 | The fog came back over and over again that late autumn and early winter , and the dark days before Christmas that year were very dark indeed . |