Example sentences of "[adv] up and [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 3 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 4 | ‘ Look there , ’ he said , pointing to where the ‘ gay ’ girls of Station Road shivered , stamped their feet , and walked morosely up and down beneath the flaring gas . |
| 5 | He explained that the lager was manufactured by the Danes , an ancient seafaring people , to be drunk straight out of the can , so that the bubbles would move straight up and down in the stomach to counteract the sideways rocking movement of the boat . |
| 6 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 7 | One false feint to the groin , then up and round in a semi-arc to slice the enemy between helmet and hauberk . |