Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell . |
| 2 | The player relies on his feel for putting , and all that bobbing up and down on the green , as if in supplication , is really only confirmation of what the player is reading as the borrow anyway . |
| 3 | Street upon street of small Chinese shopfront , a Manhattan-like skyline and junks bobbing up and down on the busy harbour from indelible images of this British colony . |
| 4 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 5 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 7 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 8 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , do stop bobbing up and down like a yo-yo , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Lesser Short-toed Lark Song a simple sustained repetition of a few musical notes , often ending with a wistful phrase recalling Willow Warbler ( p. 237 ) , usually uttered in aerial display with bird bobbing up and down like a slowly manipulated yo-yo , and with no final plumb drop . |
| 11 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 12 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 13 | One of the domestics hummed up and down behind the counter , polishing the spotless ceraplas . |
| 14 | If you weave half way across a row and stop and take off the sinker plate , you 'll see the weaving yarn weaving up and down over the needles . |
| 15 | Off home to jump up and down on a picture of Long John Silver . |
| 16 | Back in Mayhem Central , STARE have already caused several sorts to jump up and down in a post-punk , pre-rockist rock kind of way , which leaves just enough time for CARTER USM to get blindingly colourful and brattily hectic in their usual mind-spinning manner . |
| 17 | His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid . |
| 18 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 19 | Mm , it would bounce up and down like a yo-yo |
| 20 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 21 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 22 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 23 | Annoyed at the fellow leaping up and down like a jack-in-the-box , wishing that he could escape as easily , and regretful that he had not demanded his urgent message for somewhat earlier , the Prince of Wales shifted uneasily in his plush upright seat in the ballroom to which they had adjourned . |
| 24 | The great thick orange-red cloud was leaping up and down in a frenzy of hunger and desire , and the whole forest was echoing with the snorts and growls of the awesome creature . |
| 25 | At stations all was noise : bells ringing ; people clamouring to get on and off ; men walking up and down beside the train shouting mysterious cries , selling food and cigarettes from trays around their necks or from baskets on their heads . |
| 26 | ‘ all the witches dance here at midnight : and those who go may see their own ghosts walking up and down with a little Billet on the back , giving the names of those who had wished them there . |
| 27 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
| 28 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 29 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 30 | Physically they are amazing , you can jump up and down on a cockroach , and they still get up and walk away . |