Example sentences of "[conj] down from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 2 | A virulent form of the endemic bubonic plagues of medieval Europe , it swept across the country from the south-west and down from London . |
| 3 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 4 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 5 | Each round of each tournament is punctuated by caddies marching up and down from chart points , pacing out the distances to the green so they and the player know which club to use . |
| 6 | I looked at his ball lying there and I thought , ‘ Well , I know he 's been getting up and down from bunkers all week , that 's one of his great strengths , but he 's going to have to work hard here . ’ |
| 7 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 8 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 9 | Knead comfortably up and down from side to side , then knead the sides of the waist . |