Example sentences of "[adv] up [coord] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I stood up and began to walk impatiently up and down the cell in the darkness .
2 He asked , and stropped the knife blade gently up and down the skin behind my ear .
3 Wedges of red-sashed men were driving in up and down the catwalk , cutting the defenders off into pockets .
4 She walked feverishly up and down the room , until an idea came to her .
5 The delegates gave an overwhelming vote in favour of retaining the title " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , not just on the spur of the moment but after the matter had been chewed over up and down the country .
6 The Judge raised his noose again , while the rats ran desperately up and down the rope of the alarm bell .
7 He pushed two packets of Players and a box of matches through the bars while the German stood miserably in the background looking furtively up and down the wire .
8 Ben was walking slowly up and down the room , looking about him curiously .
9 Robert , who was still looking nervously up and down the garden , stood a little away from the rear wall .
10 He begins to pace restlessly up and down the platform , his pacings taking him nearer and nearer to the tunnel at the end .
11 The overall volume of transport decreases both up and down the beach from this zone .
12 The most important item lacking was a turntable , which was needed so that Bishop 's Castle locomotives could work chimney first both up and down the line — an important safety consideration for passenger traffic as the engines would have been likely to run more steadily when going forward .
13 This option enables you to display a list of a user 's immediate relations , both up and down the family tree .
14 Communicate effectively with colleagues , both up and down the chain of responsibility , to help ensure that risk management activities are sufficiently comprehensive and understood .
15 A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself .
16 Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus .
17 There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) .
18 A neighbour said he often saw Mr Huang spending hours walking aimlessly up and down the town 's Yarm Road .
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