Example sentences of "up [coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood for a moment , looking up and down the dark street before quietly entering the passage . |
| 2 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 3 | While the equipment is being set up people come in from their work outside and visitors start arriving from up and down the Whanganui river . |
| 4 | This is an example of a patient who has a stable cystometogram and in the course of the voiding study voids with a high pressure , the stylus is going up and down the whole time |
| 5 | he were running up and down the little bugger ! |
| 6 | With dusk , I was forced to leave the tavern , and paced up and down the muddy street for warmth . |
| 7 | She looked up and down the quiet street , where the lights made golden leafy spaces in the trees . |
| 8 | Up and down the old ironing board . |
| 9 | Cars speed up and down the twisty road at all hours and residents and visitors frequently park vehicles on the road restricting access . |
| 10 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 11 | Men sat outside the cafés discussing business , chatting or playing briscola , a card game , as they sipped glasses of lambrusco , while we young girls walked up and down the main street and through the square on what was called the passeggiata , the promenade , hoping that we attracted the eyes of the boys who gathered in little groups . |
| 12 | Yeah , but he does n't have , he does n't have to be noted in the score book , that he was no balled for a , for a beamer , but out of interest perhaps he was letting him er , so Giles there , there , left-hander , played some lovely strokes in the first innings , was n't in for long , then Shaw goes down on his knees there up and outside the old stump , he 's playing backwards , the ball goes through to Russell . |
| 13 | The other is some Java Moss which I already have in large quantities and which grows anywhere and everywhere I find , tucked into every crevice and gap in the rockwork , with a couple of large potted vallis plants , which if our specimens here are anything to go by will grow up and along the full length of the tank without excessive care . |
| 14 | Adam was thrown forward , up and over the shattered windscreen and on to the bonnet . |
| 15 | And on all those issues I think the industry itself has pulled itself up and through the National Tourist Boards we are going to promote it very hard indeed over the four week period . |