Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [conj] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday night is racing cars up and down the eight miles of road , the nearest policeman being , perhaps , a whole day away . |
| 2 | The club 's travels up and down the four divisions in the last 18 years have helped , and he completed the full set of 92 grounds at Watford three or four years ago . |
| 3 | It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
| 6 | There are few passenger-boat services up and down the Egyptian Nile railways and roads are quicker — but we hoped to find a felucca to hire for the day . |