Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 2 | Sometimes he would be climbing up and down a cliff and he found himself stuck , unable to get higher and unable to climb down and once he was left clinging on a ledge for ever . |
| 3 | Out into the spooky snicket and down a few yards towards the churchyard . |
| 4 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 5 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
| 6 | It took over an hour to negotiate the couple of miles to the hotel and only then because , in exasperation , I ignored all rules of good driving not to mention half-a-dozen laws , and made my way blithely down a one-way street ( the wrong way , of course ) and down a ( prohibited ) tram-only lane . |
| 7 | He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return . |
| 8 | If you look carefully , you may see some ridge and furrow which lie in a reverse-S pattern , a result of the logistics facing the medieval ploughman , who had to manoeuvre eight oxen up and down a field . |
| 9 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 10 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 11 | It is the only inland funicular railway in this country , and is still in operation , its cars travelling up and down a gradient of 1–1½ and worked nowadays by electric motor . |
| 12 | And down a tight , twisty road it would disappear from either in a short order . |
| 13 | Both Corbett and Ranulf were dragged unceremoniously off their horses and pushed through the main door of the house and down a passageway which led into the main room or hall . |
| 14 | Up and down a few more hills . |
| 15 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times . |
| 16 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 17 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 18 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 19 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 20 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times . |
| 21 | if only to reduce the number of 100 metre ( 330 ft ) round trips up and down a fully paid-out set of lines , which always seems to happen when you are on your own ! |
| 22 | Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound . |
| 23 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 24 | It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure . |
| 25 | The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line . |
| 26 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 27 | Cross over the stile on the left and follow the path down , over the stream and down a slope . |
| 28 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 29 | Rustling in her stiff new overall — Mr Mulgrove 's administrative eye had rested in disappointment on the extra foot of Anna 's grey corduroy skirt that hung below it — Anna followed Tim out of the warehouse and down a grim cold staircase on to the shop floor . |
| 30 | Nowadays I ca n't bear anything to do with football , kicking an air-filled pig 's bladder up and down a muddy pitch ai n't my idea of fun . |