Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] the country [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS a scene enacted up and down the country on the last Saturday before polling day . |
| 2 | After the cessation of hostilities , there were hundreds of aircrew cooling their heels in airfields up and down the country with nothing much to do . |
| 3 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 4 | He 's been travelling up and down the country for over a quarter of a century watching the Clarets and he would n't dream of being anywhere else but on the coach to Brighton on Boxing Day . |
| 5 | He left his job as Chairman of Ratners in November and was busy searching up and down the country for another shop . |
| 6 | He 's been playing the part in theatres up and down the country for over a year , so he 's had several first nights for this production alone . |
| 7 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 8 | Even the logistics involved in transporting journalists and television crews up and down the country by bus and plane and , on one day , over the Channel by catamaran , worked smoothly . |
| 9 | But the Sandinista also took the initiative by training brigadistas up and down the country in preventive techniques like simple listening skills , bereavement counselling , relaxation methods , even family and group therapy . |
| 10 | So long as there is uncertainty about the matter , that must have a bearing on whether enforcement proceedings are taken by the Attorney-General up and down the country in a necessarily very large number of cases . |
| 11 | I explained to the House in November that I do not consider that the public interest lies in my taking that very large number of proceedings up and down the country in those circumstances . |
| 12 | It 's antics like this which have become a major problem in towns and cities up and down the country in recent years , generating fear on estates like Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
| 13 | The seminar was one of several held up and down the country in the run up to the introduction of Environmental Protection Act legislation on Wednesday . |