Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and down [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurry up or I 'll start jerking you up and down and then your hair really will come out and we 'll have enough of it to stuff a sofa ! |
| 2 | Now if it 's tablets they 've taken we do n't do whatever Angie did years ago in , in Eastenders and , and then she 's walked up and down and given gallons of coffee , what you do is keep your casualty at rest , nil by mouth because you , if you give them any fluid whatsoever it 's going to dilate , dilute the tablets that are in the stomach , and once they 're diluted they 've gone into the system quicker , mm , so there 's nil by mouth , now if you 're going to get up and walk them up and down because come on you must walk up and down , what 's happening to this per these tablets ? |
| 3 | He looked me up and down and with a twinkle in his eye said ‘ Oh ! dear , I think I shall have to let you know after all . ’ |
| 4 | The owner , a posh woman with a hairstyle like an upright honeycomb , looks me up and down and only drawls , ‘ It 's very expensive . ’ |
| 5 | Graham , when he saw me , looked me up and down and said : " You 'll do . " |
| 6 | She looks me up and down and says , ‘ I 'm Mr Newbegin 's wife . ’ |
| 7 | She looked me up and down and said , ‘ Oh , it 's you , is it ? ’ and turned back to the wicker hopper on the bike , delving into its depths with both hands , surfacing with long packages wrapped in newspaper . |
| 8 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 9 | He forced them back and down and in , his fingers slipping on their cheeks and brows ; they turned into mud , shiny and viscous . |
| 10 | Oh and you 'd telling everybody up and down that Jackie 's had her theatre gr it 's this week she 's there is n't it ? |
| 11 | He turns onto his side , looks her up and down and says politely , ‘ What a beautiful shape . ’ |
| 12 | I knew I was n't being terribly respectful , but I just cupped the telephone , looked her up and down and said : ‘ Well , you could put some shoes on . ’ |
| 13 | Work him up and down while she licked the rest of his body , work her way up , lift herself over him , her fingers now slipping inside herself . |
| 14 | ‘ Off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah and off the coast of Muscat , too , the Slave of the Devil has been known to catch a boat by the middle , break it — break its back and pull it down and down until all is gone . |
| 15 | He actually said to them , if you can find , you know , a hundred good men then I wo n't burn your city and then he put it down and down and down and had a good old bargain . |
| 16 | You can even move it up and down when it 's when it is n't s you can really even move it up and down look . |
| 17 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 18 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 19 | His shaven eyebrows worked themselves up and down as he shouted . |