Example sentences of "up and down [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'll jump up and down on his metaphorical toes and see what happens . |
| 2 | It 's worth having one just to see the expression on your enemy 's face as the Giant jumps up and down on his cherished troops . |
| 3 | Below in the valley the yellow lights of Hafpor 's truck jiggled up and down with his frantic efforts to ease it through the snow . |
| 4 | Chopping wood , making bonfires , sawing logs , collecting acorns , eyeing the strawberries while patrolling up and down with his special secateurs , he appeared to one neighbour ‘ like a magic gardener in a fairy story ’ . |
| 5 | For it was in such fashion that lovers talked , Rosa knew , from the Mass on certain feast days : King Solomon became languid with love as he searched up and down for his beloved , whose breasts were like a young doe and her belly a heap of wheat . |
| 6 | He says that he say the tanker driver pacing up and down by his parked lorry . |