Example sentences of "and down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comprehensively equipped with electric windows ( one touch up and down for the driver ) , central locking power mirrors and so on , the finish reflects the fact that they take a bit of trouble up in Sunderland . |
| 2 | I stretch for at least 10 minutes every morning and try to warm up and down for running and cycling . |
| 3 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean to say that you go out in all weathers — hail , rain–snow , sunshine — and run up and down for nothing ? ’ |
| 5 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 6 | Up and down for Russell and me |
| 7 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 8 | Initially I found the switch confusing , assuming it worked in the ( to me , obvious ) sense up for out and down for in . |
| 9 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 10 | I walked up and down for two or three minutes , then I said : ‘ Henry , go back to these men . |
| 11 | He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed . |
| 12 | For it was in such fashion that lovers talked , Rosa knew , from the Mass on certain feast days : King Solomon became languid with love as he searched up and down for his beloved , whose breasts were like a young doe and her belly a heap of wheat . |
| 13 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 14 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 15 | Sally-Anne could have jumped up and down for joy . |
| 16 | He was a Hollywood man , used to having huge cranes going up and down for musicals . ’ |
| 17 | It is mowed by one man walking up and down for 54 green miles . |