Example sentences of "up [coord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The U.S.A. trip was wonderfully reminiscent too … mainly for the two brothers who travelled up & down Memory Lane every hour of every three week day . |
| 2 | Where the debtor has been adjudged bankrupt or is a company which is being wound up or in relation to which an administration order is in force , the application can only be made by the official receiver , the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate , the liquidator or the administrator or , with the leave of the court , by a victim of the transaction . |
| 3 | and your point in this context , it , as I say the context in which I 've asked you to address me , I suppose you would say , erm given the matters are arguable or whatever the test is under those issues , er , nevertheless if you allow the case that 's been put up , erm , either by way of defence or by way of set up or by way of counter claim to impede the collection of funds , erm , then er you are not then you are erm , erm taking a measure which could could , jeopardize the of the objectives of this treaty , er whereas I image you will say , or you might say , I do n't know , erm , provided this does n't impede the collection of central funds erm , in the meantime , if er the defendants wish to pursue their counterclaim to trial then er , there 's nothing to prevent them from doing so |
| 4 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 5 | He 's been waiting up and down town asking us to vote for him , flipping heck |
| 6 | In honour of Richard Phibbs , I walked up and down Harmony Hill , although there was nothing special to see there . |
| 7 | It has certainly been an up and down season so far and we have n't started the winter league yet — I 'll keep you informed as the dramas unfold . |
| 8 | We 'd come gently up and down hill , but not much further on the ground fell away abruptly , according to the map 's contour lines , with too hard a climb on the return . |
| 9 | Up and down hill fences pose problems for the horse by placing a premium on balance and impulsion . |
| 10 | Think about things when you go up and down hill . |
| 11 | Better things to do with me time than sit and watch the up and down street . |
| 12 | There used to be a bloke who walked up and down Fleet Street in the old days with a fox on a lead , to prove how harmless they were . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 14 | Investors have their capital tied up and at risk ; senior managers have their livings and ulcers tied up in it ; but we must not forget the men on the shop floor who have their lives and self-respect tied up in it too . ’ |
| 15 | Higgs insisted on this so their wives would not be caught in curlers ; but the idea was that Charles should see the farms and the farmers as they really were , not spruced up and on parade . |
| 16 | When my eyes finished leaking , I looked up and of course it was the lead drainpipe . |
| 17 | And the next day I picked it up and of course it was ten shillings , my full |
| 18 | Unless we can persuade them in two years costs have gone up and of course we will . |
| 19 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 20 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 21 | And that , and that keeps me going all week so I had to go and pick that up and of course we we went in , then we were late . |
| 22 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |
| 23 | Of single size with metal up and over door . |
| 24 | Up and over door with parking for two other vehicles , storage space . |
| 25 | Less than one million years ago an eruption of this sort took place near Naples ; the ignimbrites erupted spread out over 5,000 square kilometres , and performed the almost incredible feat of rushing up and over mountain passes 600 metres high . |
| 26 | In that event , after a brief panic , the price of oil would fall sharply and stockmarkets would celebrate ; the floor for the world economy would move up and into view . |
| 27 | barriers were getting closed up and above water we were permitted to walk across . |
| 28 | Billy Ploose 's up and under fell behind Town defence bouncing kindly for Scott who kept his head and finished coolly . |
| 29 | So saying he caught him up and without Wing |
| 30 | In the bull markets of the eighties long term investment funds were attractive to investors , and there was also a steady demand from new businesses starting up and from management buyouts that became popular . |