Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social mobility can refer to any movement up or down the occupational hierarchy , though sociologists often emphasise cross-class mobility . |
| 2 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 3 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 4 | Saturday night is racing cars up and down the eight miles of road , the nearest policeman being , perhaps , a whole day away . |
| 5 | Formal speeches were made by practically every one present , and after each speech one had to have a toast and down the requisite amount of liquour after clinking glasses and saying ‘ gambei ’ ( ‘ empty your glass ’ ) . |
| 6 | The shore event was poor , principally because a commercial fisherman from Portstewart thoughtfully trawled up and down the shallow waters of the East Strand the day of the first competition . |
| 7 | Like Lawrence of Arabia going up and down the majestic sand dunes , he has over the years risen to great heights , and plummeted to great depths . |
| 8 | The mosaic extends the length of the nave as far as the presbytery , into the apse , and down the two arms of the transept and survives as a visual encyclopedia of the medieval mind . |
| 9 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 10 | All drawing information is conventionally reflected both up and down the hierarchical tree . |
| 11 | This assignment involved practising each shape chromatically up and down the entire fretboard so as to build confidence and technique in every position , starting on the highest note descending or starting on the lowest note ascending in each key . |
| 12 | Then you ride out alone , across the springing grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers ; you ride up the rushy mountains and down the rushy glens and come to the mouth of the dragon 's cave . |
| 13 | The club 's travels up and down the four divisions in the last 18 years have helped , and he completed the full set of 92 grounds at Watford three or four years ago . |
| 14 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 15 | For instance , how to groom a horse , how to harness it and how to walk up and down the long rigs alongside your favourite ploughman , listening to his songs and watching his work with the horses . |
| 16 | Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came . |
| 17 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 18 | As the teeth sink into the flesh , the pressure of this action squeezes venom out of the glands and down the hollow tubes of the paired fangs . |
| 19 | Simply pass the end of the yarn through the threader and down the hollow tube , attach the weight , and away you go , in moments you have a length of cord ready to use however you wish . |
| 20 | This creeps across the shelf and down the continental slope , spreading along the sea-bed ; much of it is formed over the shelves of the Weddell and Ross bights , and from there it spreads far northward into the northern hemisphere . |
| 21 | He walked up and down the wide streets , trying to admire the modern buildings . |
| 22 | Less well known , but in my opinion more interesting , is the fact that unofficial and unspoken nonaggression pacts , a ‘ live-and-let-live ’ system , flourished all up and down the front lines for at least two years starting in 1914 . |
| 23 | The tunic was piped in branch-colour around the collar , deep cuffs , and down the front edge . |
| 24 | Information flow does not have to be restricted to passing up and down the scalar chain , but authority should . |
| 25 | It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch . |
| 26 | His non-stop verbal explications , declaimed as he strode up and down the crowded aisles , described the gods and mythology and history of the people of Persia ; and his improvisation fitted what was happening in the film as the hair fits the head . |
| 27 | Once this was a series of separate houses , with walls isolating level from level , with lackeys running up and down the poky backstairs , and tweeny-maids freezing in the little attic bedrooms . |
| 28 | Harry again experienced a sudden lethargy of the lower limbs , which he overcame by the thought of the greater paralysis at being trapped in the glass lift , forevermore exhibited up and down the tropical conservatory . |
| 29 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 30 | There are few passenger-boat services up and down the Egyptian Nile railways and roads are quicker — but we hoped to find a felucca to hire for the day . |