Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [conj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you already use a ‘ milk saver ’ , one of those thick glass discs which bounces up and down when the milk boils . |
| 2 | To revert to the metaphor of weighing , in choices of means the traveller would be the weigher , but in this choice of an end he is the arm of the balance , and when the information is assimilated the impulse to go prevails over the reluctance to take the risk as the arm goes up or down when the balance is fully loaded . |
| 3 | Right , cos , it 's like everything , it 's like your weight it either goes up and up and up or it goes down and down and down , you 'll never hold it the same |
| 4 | Again her heart is represented by the mechanism from an old lift : she goes up and down as others will her . |
| 5 | This means that your monthly payments are the same for 12 months at a time , unlike the standard variable rate , which goes up and down as base rates change . |
| 6 | This chair goes up and down when you sit on it is that computer free ? |
| 7 | However , it does also remove any chance of adjusting your line with the accelerator , causing artificially strong understeer that builds up as soon as the ASR exclamation mark lights up in the speedometer . |
| 8 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |