Example sentences of "[vb past] up and down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 2 | Far out , a sprinkling of small white birds swooped up and down in hurried flight before an ominous sky-darkening . |
| 3 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 4 | We climbed pure alpine style , which is very fast and light , and got up and down in one piece . |
| 5 | Bunkered behind the green , he then got up and down in two with one of the firmest six-foot putts for a title I can recall . |
| 6 | Some soared up and down in gentle arcs : some shot horizontally : some rocketed high into the sky , then turned about and suddenly plummeted . |
| 7 | I walked up and down for two or three minutes , then I said : ‘ Henry , go back to these men . |
| 8 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 9 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 10 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |