Example sentences of "and down [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
| 2 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 4 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
| 5 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 6 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 7 | Once , on a tour of the Middle East , the gentlemen of the orchestra were watching him swim — cigar in place — up and down the hotel pool . |
| 8 | The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen . |
| 9 | His hearty voice was soon familiar to and popular with many thousands of listeners up and down the west coast and he invariably ended his broadcasts with a special Good-Night wish to a different section of the community each evening , such as to June brides , to lighthouse keepers ‘ out there in the dark ’ , or to all dentists who might be ‘ looking down in the mouth ’ . |
| 10 | Sometimes the tribe 's Big'uns recognised their old leader as he stomped up and down the battle lines bawling at his lads . |
| 11 | The passing out parade was held on Saturday , 23 February 1918 , which ended with Charlie marching his section up and down the parade ground keeping step with the regimental band , and for the first time feeling like a soldier even if Tommy still resembled a sack of potatoes . |
| 12 | It lumbered its way up and down the ramp systems , infiltrating the DEEP living spaces . |
| 13 | I scrambled back down the ratlines , rushed to the cockpit and down the companionway hatch . |
| 14 | Once they are set up and down the field groups can be interlocked , and figures united by gesture and look . |
| 15 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 16 | Thousands of fans up and down the country plan one minute 's peaceful demonstration to coincide with weekend kickoffs . |
| 17 | Up and down the country factory meetings debated the agreements and rejected them overwhelmingly . |
| 18 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 19 | We joined the surge out through the doors and down the marble stairs . |
| 20 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 21 | They went through the French window at the end of the room , and down the stone steps into the garden . |
| 22 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 23 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 24 | For 1,000 years the Venetian Republic stood in the forefront of naval power and development , and down the generations ships of every kind , warlike and peaceful , simple and grandiose , displayed themselves to the world in these waters . |
| 25 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 26 | As we togged up and down the Seefeld baby slopes learning how to sno-plough and how to get up when you failed to sno-plough , it became apparent that this was , with or without ganglion , perhaps not going to be Jack 's Number One sport . |
| 27 | During summer loose pack ice from the Arctic Ocean streams southward through the Greenland Sea and down the east Greenland coast ; lesser streams pass from the Barents Sea to the Norwegian Sea and from Baffin Bay down the Labrador coast , ultimately to melt in the warmer waters of the north Atlantic Ocean . |
| 28 | Sailing takes place up and down the east coast . |
| 29 | The old barges , who had once beaten their way up and down the East coast and the Channel ports , grumbled and heaved at their cables while their new owners sat back in peace . |
| 30 | I wish I could believe he 'd come by it honestly , driving his lorry up and down the Great North Road . ’ |