Example sentences of "and down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have made mention in passing of mobility within the context of a family 's history : both the ups and down of social mobility according to circumstance , and the more obviously-apparent geographical moves people made to ensure their own survival or to better their lot . |
| 2 | He could feel his head moving up and down of its own accord . |
| 3 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 4 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 5 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
| 6 | Most people arrive on the island on the north side and from here it 's best to travel east and walk from the port of Ryde over to the town of Seaview and down to Sandown . |
| 7 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 8 | Some of the time the Germans at one end of the stadium were hearing the French translation , while their own language was floating with the wind over the top of the stadium and down to Lake Geneva . |
| 9 | And down to earth though she was , she had to admit there were often some weird parallels . |
| 10 | And go up and down to London . |
| 11 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 12 | Wing Commander Douglas Farquhar looked out of his cockpit window and down to the left . |
| 13 | Take 'em along Witchball Street , Tom , and down to the quay that way . |
| 14 | This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front . |
| 15 | Across his scalp and down to his brows spread a searing pain . |
| 16 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 17 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 18 | It keeps the whole roof in position and transmits its weight , and the considerable windloadings it is subjected to , through the walls and down to the foundations . |
| 19 | This agreed , Christine and Mary ran out and down to the bottom of the long garden where the apple-tree stood . |
| 20 | There followed three weeks during which , in Coleridge 's comical retelling of events , Walsh displayed ‘ truly Indian perseverance ’ in tracking the poets on their daily excursions into the hills and down to the beach at Kilve . |
| 21 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 22 | Here the marchers can drill up and down to their hearts ' content . |
| 23 | They come in here for one orange juice and they 're up and down to the loos five times in one night with different blokes . ’ |
| 24 | The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids . |
| 25 | We handed in our papers , and I do not think a more relieved set of students or an Invigilator ever rushed for the lift and down to the shelter . |
| 26 | It passed under the canal and ran parallel to the Haversham Bank and down to the river . |
| 27 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 28 | Corbett nodded and followed both the envoy and his strange companion out of the room and down to the main hall of the castle . |
| 29 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |
| 30 | Are the doorways wide enough for a wheelchair , can you go easily from one room to another , is the floor level throughout the flat , or are there steps up and down to various rooms ? |