Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 2 | She walked up and down the street , calling Griselda , though the cat had never been known to come when it was called . |
| 3 | A smile still hovering round her mouth , she glanced up and through the mirror . |
| 4 | Outside , she looked up and down the road ; then turning to Millie , she said , ‘ There 's nobody here now . ’ |
| 5 | She looked up and down the quiet street , where the lights made golden leafy spaces in the trees . |
| 6 | As she left the phone box , she looked up and down the street for other shops . |
| 7 | Furtively she looked up and down the street . |
| 8 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 9 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 10 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 11 | They met up because of the papers . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's your fault , Mildred Hubble , ’ she muttered , as they paced up and down the corridor . |
| 13 | They galloped up and down the corridor , blundering into walls and against doors , but still Fleury held on . |
| 14 | usually through the Summer , we got a visit from the Kirkwall City Pipe Band and they marched up and down the village playing , usually followed by a crowd of Bairns . |
| 15 | Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar . |
| 16 | He walked up and down the track , waiting impatiently ; he had made his mind up , he was going to lie down in front of the train . |
| 17 | He glanced up and down the road . |
| 18 | Quickly he glanced up and down the path . |
| 19 | He leapt up and down the stairs as if he was in a race . |
| 20 | With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom . |
| 21 | Then he looked up and for a moment he was so amazed that he forgot the misery . |
| 22 | He looked up and down the road , saw nothing , climbed into his truck and drove off . |
| 23 | He looked up and down the street . |
| 24 | He stared up and down the street in incredulity as he watched the finely dressed women going about their daily tasks , as if a world war had never taken place . |
| 25 | And that 's what 's happening at the moment , because we 're not sitting down and saying , I mean , this is my worry about oh we might do this there , that 's why I want it tightened up because at the end of the day we start , we have various modules at a later date , two , three years time whatever we might decide to sling out but it should really be designed , worked upon so that the incoming person can use it as a basis given their limitations |
| 26 | He stood up and with a hand on the Dalmatian 's collar took the bitch to the door and firmly evicted her . |