Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 11 | One of the domestics hummed up and down behind the counter , polishing the spotless ceraplas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 17 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Mason waded up and down among the crowds allowing the womenfolk to feel his arm and kiss his dirty hand as though it were a holy relic . |
| 23 | " I do n't think I 'll ever feel anything ever again with the region I sit on , " grinned Chuck as he continued to bounce up and down on the plank bench . |
| 24 | He dipped the headlights and the far end of the tunnel seemed to leap towards us , bouncing up and down to the thump of our tyres on the sleepers . |
| 25 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 26 | At the mention of ice cream the little girl became excited and animated , bouncing up and down on the bed . |
| 27 | Inching one eyelid open , Laura saw that Sophie — or was it Emma ? — was now happily bouncing up and down on the mattress beside her . |
| 28 | He desperately wanted to show Becky how much he appreciated all she had done , and settled for bouncing up and down on the corner of the bed |
| 29 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 30 | During filming , we even saw eggs being pushed up and out of the nest while the reed warbler host was still sitting on them . |