Example sentences of "and down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 2 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 3 | He jumps up and down with a vague look of aggression on his face , puts his hand on his hips and shows us his pot belly . |
| 4 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 5 | ‘ all the witches dance here at midnight : and those who go may see their own ghosts walking up and down with a little Billet on the back , giving the names of those who had wished them there . |
| 6 | He folded brawny arms across his chest , eyeing her taut , curvy body up and down with a leisured , insolent appraisal . |
| 7 | Arlene looked her up and down with a practised eye . |
| 8 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 9 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 10 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 11 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 12 | Through fences and barb-wire , over the top of a rocky hill , and down into a hidden valley . |
| 13 | The dark girl had dived into the bright turquoise swimming-pool , and was swimming up and down in a leisurely breast-stroke , moving through the myriad white marble reflections in the water like a fish . |
| 14 | Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine , smoking big cigars . |
| 15 | This sturdy pump , which is of the upright free-standing type , has another neat refinement — a float switch that slides up and down within a sturdy plastic housing , rather than pivoting . |
| 16 | Otherwise Arthur 'll jump up and down like a demented rabbit . |
| 17 | They 're all flapping round her cos her temperature keeps going up and down like a bloody yo yo . |
| 18 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 19 | Piper wagged his hand up and down like a broken automaton . |
| 20 | Neither had I , but Siegfried prowled up and down like a caged panther as though willing something to happen . |
| 21 | There may be only a few , or they may twinkle in their hundreds like some strange city skyline and , most disconcerting of all , a double set of lights may suddenly float up and down like a luminescent yo-yo . |