Example sentences of "[v-ing] up and [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adapting his subject to his captive audience , he plunged at once into parliamentary small talk about the newly appointed committee , bobbing up and down between Berowne and Dalgliesh like a small craft on bumpy water . |
| 2 | We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 8 | When the applause did come it was deafening , and she stood there unsmiling , though with her head bobbing up and down in acceptance of the appreciation . |
| 9 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 10 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , do stop bobbing up and down like a yo-yo , ’ she said . |
| 12 | In terms of a classical wave picture of light the electrons would all be agitated by the electromagnetic radiation , bobbing up and down like anchored buoys in an ocean swell . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Several times deer crashed away through the undergrowth on their approach , leaping up and down over obstacles . |
| 18 | The staff started leaping up and down on him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her mother-in-law would be looking at the clock too , perhaps walking up and down with Catherine in her arms . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm black and blue from head to toe , ’ said Crawford then , ‘ I 've got eight pulled ligaments in my leg and bruises all over and , when I limp out of the theatre at night , these bloody bastards are walking up and down with signs saying ‘ English actors will be working next year — will you ? ’ . |
| 26 | It is mowed by one man walking up and down for 54 green miles . |
| 27 | God walking up and down between buckthorn and sallow and goat willow . |
| 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 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . " |