Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Thousands of fans up and down the country plan one minute 's peaceful demonstration to coincide with weekend kickoffs . |
2 | Although the London Shopping Digest appears in copies of Ideal Home in London and the Home Counties only , this book will give all readers up and down the country the names and addresses of companies that supply goods by mail order — it 's essential reading . |
3 | Anyone who does not possess a fax machine of their own can use their local printer or British Telecom 's Bureaufax service which is run from offices up and down the country . |
4 | Whatever the British weather has thrown at them , flower growers up and down the country produce their best for the Chelsea Flower Show . |
5 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
6 | the pictures up and down the house ; |
7 | No prizes , then , for guessing what job he has set his sights on.During the General Election , Lord Archer worked tirelessly as John Major 's minder and warm-up man at speeches up and down the country . |
8 | To establish the audience ( and its socio-economic composition ) for television programmes , the Broadcasters ' Audience Research Board has installed special sets and hand-held key pads known as ‘ people meters ’ in homes up and down the country . |
9 | I want listeners up and down the country to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism . |
10 | We want listeners up and down the country to have the opportunity to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism . |
11 | His hearty voice was soon familiar to and popular with many thousands of listeners up and down the west coast and he invariably ended his broadcasts with a special Good-Night wish to a different section of the community each evening , such as to June brides , to lighthouse keepers ‘ out there in the dark ’ , or to all dentists who might be ‘ looking down in the mouth ’ . |
12 | Many groups and denominations began to plant new churches in schools , disused church buildings and halls and pubs up and down the country . |
13 | There are , of course , many other companies up and down the country which are similarly investing and growing , and laying the foundation for prosperity in the 1990s . |
14 | Finance directors up and down the land will also be chewing over the implications of the Chancellor 's other proposal that dividends paid out of foreign earnings could attract a reclaim of ACT . |
15 | He looked at Kraal , who called out in loss and anger , and at the other eagles up and down the Cages , as if somewhere there there might be some help . |
16 | Even the logistics involved in transporting journalists and television crews up and down the country by bus and plane and , on one day , over the Channel by catamaran , worked smoothly . |
17 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
18 | Far from supporting the needs of so-called higher education Project 2000 students and those on other pre- and post-registration courses , the college library was no different in size and scope to traditional nursing school libraries up and down the country . |
19 | Voluntary organisations up and down the country , from the Samaritans to the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service , were standing by to help bereaved families . |
20 | Such symptoms — repeated at places up and down the country — were exactly those to be seen throughout northern and central Europe . |
21 | The occasional listings of inhabitants that survive for places up and down the country make it clear that older married people did not live with their married children , though they were often housed nearby . |
22 | There are currently nearly ninety Remploy factories up and down the country which employ disabled people in productive work that earns them a reasonable wage . |
23 | Oxford has four meetings a week … that 's forty four races … and they run all year round … they 're are 48 tracks up and down the country … so a lot of people are getting a lot of enjoyment … |
24 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
25 | It even admitted that there were ‘ problems ’ — a slight euphemism , given the tens of thousands of people who had attended mass protests up and down the country — and hinted that the government might be to blame . |
26 | ’ At box-offices up and down the land , in Ipswich , Hanley and Rhyl , the crowds are waving their credit cards for the ‘ Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet ’ tour of 25 British towns . |
27 | We spoke to leading hairdressers up and down the country to find out just what they 've got in store for you this year . |
28 | I wish that I had found the Opposition 's citizens charter a little more convincing , but half the ideas that they put forward in their citizens charter , as a spoiling exercise to the Government 's , were already in operation and the other half were vague promises and side-stepping some of the problems that have been created by Labour-controlled local authorities up and down the country . |
29 | Judi took her hands out of her pockets , and brushed her fingers up and down the front of her waistcoat . |
30 | In the next three months , Keynes and his protege , Hubert Henderson , published a pamphlet in support ; Lloyd George addressed a series of great meetings up and down the country ; and the Government was provoked into issuing a special white paper , proving that the plan was unworkable . |