Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social mobility can refer to any movement up or down the occupational hierarchy , though sociologists often emphasise cross-class mobility . |
| 2 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 3 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 4 | He glanced up as they approached and gave Melissa a distant nod without interrupting his progress up and down the small patch of grass . |
| 5 | Information flow does not have to be restricted to passing up and down the scalar chain , but authority should . |
| 6 | All drawing information is conventionally reflected both up and down the hierarchical tree . |
| 7 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | As he paced up and down the narrow kitchen , shouting curses through the bedroom door , Constance smiled . |
| 9 | ‘ Seen the crowd ? ’ asked the Duke , buckling on a wooden sword and striding up and down the narrow space , waving his arms about and muttering to himself . |
| 10 | This assignment involved practising each shape chromatically up and down the entire fretboard so as to build confidence and technique in every position , starting on the highest note descending or starting on the lowest note ascending in each key . |
| 11 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 12 | Harry again experienced a sudden lethargy of the lower limbs , which he overcame by the thought of the greater paralysis at being trapped in the glass lift , forevermore exhibited up and down the tropical conservatory . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps Mrs Porter will do that , ’ Belinda murmured against his lips , letting her fingers trail up and down the sinewed shape of his back . |
| 14 | It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch . |
| 15 | Like Lawrence of Arabia going up and down the majestic sand dunes , he has over the years risen to great heights , and plummeted to great depths . |
| 16 | The sedimentologist of the distant future will find a long trough filled with deltaic and fluviatile sediments with clear evidence of their provenance from the north-west and of longitudinal infilling like so many other trough.shaped basins up and down the stratigraphical column . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have occurred to you before you dropped your bombshell that it would distract Simon , ’ Vitor said , starting to pace up and down the confined space like an enraged tiger trapped in a too small cage . |
| 18 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 19 | He knew the fish was doomed Methodically , he began to splash up and down the large pool almost falling several times as he traversed the uneven sandy bottom . |
| 20 | More recently , writers interested in social mobility ( the movement of individuals and groups up and down the social scale ) have studied rates of social mobility in different societies in an attempt to discover its causes , especially in relation to the process of industrialization . |
| 21 | Hitherto social mobility research has tried to understand how men move up and down the social ladder by looking at them as isolated individuals , neither helped nor hindered by family life . |
| 22 | Elinor folded her arms and , shaking her head in the way Henry sometimes did at the motorists who cut him up , she began to pace up and down the red-tiled kitchen . |
| 23 | I walk up and down the little room again . |
| 24 | The other Rex did a bit of pacing , up and down the top-secret room . |
| 25 | Daniel paced up and down the polished floor from one end of the long room to the other ; his sentences bore the rehearsed solemnity of a stage drama . |
| 26 | It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap . |
| 27 | Walking slowly up and down the old stone terrace , Laura tried to empty her mind — to banish the sick feelings of fear and apprehension which had haunted her during the last week . |
| 28 | Anna walked up and down the next street , calling , and around the block and further afield . |
| 29 | Plainly you can not apply that view to everything or the whole of your business is in a continuous state of stop/go , or like the good old Duke of York 's troops , marching up and down the same hill with monotonous regularity . |
| 30 | Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came . |