Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He glanced up as they approached and gave Melissa a distant nod without interrupting his progress up and down the small patch of grass . |
| 32 | He walked out of the room and down the broad staircase . |
| 33 | Well do I remember walking up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco , and also attending a performance of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , with that debonair veteran Frenchman Pierre Montreux conducting . |
| 34 | ‘ Seen the crowd ? ’ asked the Duke , buckling on a wooden sword and striding up and down the narrow space , waving his arms about and muttering to himself . |
| 35 | Inwardly she trembled , but she managed to glare at him and searched up and down the narrow aisles for the right number . |
| 36 | As he paced up and down the narrow kitchen , shouting curses through the bedroom door , Constance smiled . |
| 37 | The only vehicles Irena took any notice of were the thin double trams , locked inscrutably into their own system , clanging their way up and down the narrow streets making unmistakable tram noises . |
| 38 | She walked past Ivy Cottage and down the narrow roadway . |
| 39 | ‘ Perhaps Mrs Porter will do that , ’ Belinda murmured against his lips , letting her fingers trail up and down the sinewed shape of his back . |
| 40 | They walk up and down the teeming thoroughfares of Central London distributing to lookalikes and doppelgangers a leaflet advertising Mr Tim 's College of English . |
| 41 | There were outbreaks of violence in the Borders and down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh . |
| 42 | The other Rex did a bit of pacing , up and down the top-secret room . |
| 43 | Mildred squeezed through the gap and set off as fast as possible along the corridor and down the spiral staircase to the yard . |
| 44 | Plainly you can not apply that view to everything or the whole of your business is in a continuous state of stop/go , or like the good old Duke of York 's troops , marching up and down the same hill with monotonous regularity . |
| 45 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 46 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 47 | Their suction-boots seemed to allow them to walk up and down the steepest branches with the greatest ease , and some were even walking upside-down underneath the branches . |
| 48 | Elinor folded her arms and , shaking her head in the way Henry sometimes did at the motorists who cut him up , she began to pace up and down the red-tiled kitchen . |
| 49 | ‘ It must have occurred to you before you dropped your bombshell that it would distract Simon , ’ Vitor said , starting to pace up and down the confined space like an enraged tiger trapped in a too small cage . |
| 50 | It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap . |
| 51 | Free in San Francisco to explore Chinatown , browse in the shops of Fisherman 's Wharf , ride a cable-car up and down the steep streets or visit the grim fortress of Alcatraz . |
| 52 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 53 | By nightfall , ten thousand victims of the explosion had invaded the Red Cross Hospital , and Dr Sasaki , worn out , was moving aimlessly and dully up and down the stinking corridors with wads of bandages and bottles , binding up the worst cuts as he came to them . |
| 54 | Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination . |
| 55 | Daniel paced up and down the polished floor from one end of the long room to the other ; his sentences bore the rehearsed solemnity of a stage drama . |
| 56 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
| 57 | She started the engine and turned the jeep so that its tyres squealed , then drove back down the drive and down the pretty hillside , wanting only to be somewhere by herself to sit and mourn . |
| 58 | I walk up and down the little room again . |
| 59 | Sam had blood on his white jacket and down the white ruffles . |
| 60 | According to Jamie , the object of the game is to get a soggy fag-end from wherever it is in the channel along to and down the coverless hole , breaking it up as much as possible en –ute . |