Example sentences of "and down [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia was up , dressed and down to breakfast by eight the next morning . |
| 2 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 3 | Every time the monostable output pulses low , transistor TR1 switches on and capacitor C2 loses a substantial amount of its charge via resistor R3 and down to 0V through the emitter of TR1 . |
| 4 | Benny 's mother was back in the kitchen , her coat off and down to business with the icing sugar . |
| 5 | Her mother-in-law would be looking at the clock too , perhaps walking up and down with Catherine in her arms . |
| 6 | Unseen by either Pain or the Collector , the fat pariah dog in the shade of the tamarind was whining and jumping up and down with excitement at the prospect of a square meal or two , when all the fuss was over . |
| 7 | One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other . |
| 8 | He was , after all , proposing to jerk up and down on top of a naked woman not more than three or four strides away from a sleeping child , her child . |
| 9 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 10 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 11 | All the er all the moulds and the part pieces were all kept , you know , in a safe position behind the lines so that the it was easy for people to walk up and down without fear of accident . |
| 12 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 13 | The tour travelled up the west coast to Oban , round the far north and down through Inverness to Aberdeen and Edinburgh , finishing up in Dumfries . |
| 14 | Attlee commented at the 1943 party conference , ‘ As a matter of fact you can see the votes at byelections going up and down in accordance with the progress of our armies in Africa ’ . |
| 15 | " Shit-shit-shit , " he cried , and jumped up and down in unison with Nicandra 's unrestrained antics . |
| 16 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 17 | In emergency the person in the seat next to you may be allowed to indicate ‘ slow down ’ by moving his straight right arm gently up and down in front of him ( not in front of you ! ) ; then you will find a place to pull in and stop . |
| 18 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 19 | Nicandra jumped up and down in front of him , appearing from and disappearing into , the laurel leaves . |
| 20 | Holmes and I walked up and down in front of the house . |
| 21 | No thought of food or drink now as Mandeville strode up and down in front of us , so angry he seemed impervious to the roaring flames of the fire . |
| 22 | Athelstan promised he would do something to help her and left quietly , the cope still round his shoulders , Crim jumping up and down in front of him all the way back to the church . |
| 23 | And it 's Zack who gets the crowd bouncing up and down in time to his dazzling raps . |
| 24 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 26 | When the applause did come it was deafening , and she stood there unsmiling , though with her head bobbing up and down in acceptance of the appreciation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Knead comfortably up and down from side to side , then knead the sides of the waist . |
| 30 | The hair of his bush floated and he made a swell in the water with his hand to make it ride up and down like seaweed over waves . |