Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] down [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The relationship between ants and other animals , particularly their farmed Homoptera feeding off the host plants is complicated in itself but , in the Old World Tropics , mosquitoes of the genus Malaya are associated in their habits with certain ants , which run up and down tree trunks carrying the honey-dew they have taken from their aphids . |
2 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
3 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
4 | A previous study involving ferry passengers showed that it was the up and down movement of the ferry , not the side to side motion , that caused motion sickness . |
5 | The water pull is best visualised as a horizontal movement , not as a vertical up and down movement as viewed from the shore . |
6 | They made the obvious point that a commercial port is a 24-hour operation and would attract heavy goods vehicles up and down Bridge and Medway Roads at all hours . |
7 | There are three pairs of pads set into the surface of the tube ; one pair set on the top control the forward and backward motion , the second pair mounted on the side at the top control the up and down motion . |
8 | The SA system allows the shoulder straps to be adjusted up and down aluminium struts and held in place with straps and buckles , while the lumber support pad and hip belt remain stationary . |
9 | You have to play each part very , very precisely , rhythmically , and it 's a kind of straight up and down rhythm playing style that I 've just not done . |
10 | ‘ But it 's such an up and down game that every manager in the league is looking for consistency . ’ |
11 | ‘ But it 's such an up and down game that every manager in the league is looking for consistency . ’ |
12 | He had by now developed a routine that would never vary — a peculiar Kenneth Williams walk , prancing up and down stage with his bottom sticking out . |
13 | Check that the pin ai n't stickin' in 'er , an' if she do n't stop cryin' walk up an' down wiv 'er till she do . ’ |