Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 2 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 3 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 4 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 5 | Slowly Jack stood up and looked down at Ho . |
| 6 | She stood up and looked down at him . |
| 7 | Jenna sat up and looked down at him eagerly . |
| 8 | The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides . |
| 9 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 10 | He clambered up and flopped down beside her . |
| 11 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 12 | To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes . |
| 13 | Assuming they were free from spelling and other mistakes , a process which may have involved several attempts , these were cut up and stuck down onto a master layout sheet using wax or gum . |
| 14 | ‘ If you really want it done this way , I 'll get it drawn up and sent down for you to sign . |
| 15 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 16 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 17 | I I tripped up and fell down at the side . |
| 18 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 19 | the starting up and slowing down of things . |
| 20 | She got up and went down to the kitchen to start getting their dinner . |
| 21 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |
| 22 | any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ; |
| 23 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 24 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 25 | Stand up and sit down in your normal way and see if you can notice any habitual tendencies ( anything which occurs every time ) . |
| 26 | Having lifted Hector into the vehicle , where he sat on the floorboards , panting with his tongue lolling out , and wagging a satisfied tail , Benedict swung himself up and grinned down at her as he took the reins into his hand . |
| 27 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 28 | Charlotte was not a commodity to be picked up and put down at will , and so he would find . |
| 29 | For two or three hundred years British pastures were widely being ploughed up and put down to grain to feed a fast-growing human population . |
| 30 | He picked her up and sat down on a small settee , keeping his arm round her . |