Example sentences of "and down [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wish you can use your accommodation for changing as the uncrowded beach is only five minutes walk through our car park , across the road and down a 100 yard footpath . |
| 2 | There was a grey squirrel nipping up and down a hazel tree near the stream . |
| 3 | If you walk up and down a pebbly beach , you will notice that the pebbles are not arranged at random . |
| 4 | The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line . |
| 5 | Up and down a dark alley , at night Cor , flipping scary ! |
| 6 | ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . ) |
| 7 | Nowadays I ca n't bear anything to do with football , kicking an air-filled pig 's bladder up and down a muddy pitch ai n't my idea of fun . |
| 8 | A suitable mix of exercise includes cycling on an ergometer , stepping up and down a two-step climb , a variety of arm and leg exercises using dumb-bells or fixed-weight training equipment and jogging on a mini-trampoline . |
| 9 | And down A little bit later . |
| 10 | Though its popularity goes up and down a little according to the fashion of the year , the genre is plainly here to stay . |
| 11 | Oh , yeah that 's it ! 22 players kicking a leather sphere up and down a big piece of grass ! |
| 12 | Harvey went through two doors and down a moving staircase . |
| 13 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All drawing information is conventionally reflected both up and down the hierarchical tree . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The tunic was piped in branch-colour around the collar , deep cuffs , and down the front edge . |
| 25 | Information flow does not have to be restricted to passing up and down the scalar chain , but authority should . |
| 26 | It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He glanced up as they approached and gave Melissa a distant nod without interrupting his progress up and down the small patch of grass . |
| 30 | He walked out of the room and down the broad staircase . |