Example sentences of "up [coord] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 2 | because I did n't know whether I was going to have to bring ours up or not because I |
| 3 | Note that the absolute values of n are accurate only to a factor of 2 up or down but that the relative numbers from planet to planet are considerably more accurate . |
| 4 | If I make money I I 'll make you I can pay you as well , if I go up I mean if I go down , he said , I can go up or down as well , he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They will bounce light up or down or spread it horizontally , depending on the type of shade . |
| 7 | Place your eye close to the drop and adjust the strip slightly up or down until you can see a highly magnified picture of the letters on the newspaper . |
| 8 | The length of the bar in that paint pot will change up or down and the figure above the paint pot will also change . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | The courts approach this problem broadly , following the guidance given by Lord Goddard in Gourley 's case [ 1956 ] AC 185 at p209 in his model direction to the jury : " No one can foresee whether tax will go up or down and I advise you not to speculate but to deal with matters as at present . " |
| 11 | ‘ These are lurking demons waiting to pounce and then you either pack up or reluctantly and sadly sell something off . |
| 12 | Now on the angle that you did there the degrees can you add those up and just before you start drawing it you should always add them up and make sure they all come to three sixty cos if it comes to four hundred it 's going to go right round and a bit further than once round . |
| 13 | Instead the figures went up and up but was this due to Davy 's lamp ? |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 16 | In such stories as Shirley Hughes ' Up and up and Raymond Briggs ' The snowman the story is told by the pictures , unsupported by text . |
| 17 | But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all . |
| 18 | Then up and up and down and down . |
| 19 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 20 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 21 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 22 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 23 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 24 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 25 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 26 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 27 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 28 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 29 | The new National Criminal Intelligence Service , which will handle all known information on 25,000 top villains , said : ‘ Crime is going up and up and up . |
| 30 | And up and up and up … my pedal rotations became ever slower until a dreadful realisation dawned on me . |