Example sentences of "up and [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And you 've put a lot of flower pots up and down Magdalen Road , well apparently those flower pots and the changes you 've made there , some of them very ill-advised , are costing about a hundred thousand pounds .
2 Day after day , I walked up and down Oxford Street , Regent Street , Kensington .
3 She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard .
4 In honour of Richard Phibbs , I walked up and down Harmony Hill , although there was nothing special to see there .
5 As herds of humans dressed as cows ( at least , that 's what our eyes told us ) wander up and down Bleecker Street , we slump and watch The Shams , three women dressed as men , play an acoustic set which publicised their sexual fantasies .
6 There used to be a bloke who walked up and down Fleet Street in the old days with a fox on a lead , to prove how harmless they were .
7 ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public .
8 A ‘ veteran ’ fifty year old man had first run up and down Burnsall Fell in the junior race forty years ago .
9 And all are now working to drive the railhead past the 2.5 mile long Taf Fechan Reservoir and then climb up and through Torpantau Tunnel .
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