Example sentences of "[coord] down the [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 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 | Our Father went up and down the aisle with a microphone , leading the singing in a tuneless baritone which boomed from a loudspeaker at the front of the bus . |
| 5 | A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself . |
| 6 | As no one wanted me in the cabin , my poor mother , who hated coal dust , had to sleep with me on deck while thousands of ‘ natives ’ ran up and down the gangway with baskets of nutty slack on their heads . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's not plodding up and down the mountainside with a barrel round her neck . ’ |
| 8 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 9 | The tanks travelled up and down the incline with a freeboard of about nine inches and little water oscillation . |