Example sentences of "up and down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 2 | It is the only inland funicular railway in this country , and is still in operation , its cars travelling up and down a gradient of 1–1½ and worked nowadays by electric motor . |
| 3 | So I removed a rubber-handled wrench from the tool kit — a souvenir of a summer working on rich people 's yachts in southern Ireland — and weighed it up and down a couple of times . |
| 4 | ‘ Drive up and down a couple of times , check the area . ’ |
| 5 | If you look carefully , you may see some ridge and furrow which lie in a reverse-S pattern , a result of the logistics facing the medieval ploughman , who had to manoeuvre eight oxen up and down a field . |
| 6 | He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return . |
| 7 | ‘ I make costumes myself , ’ she told him eagerly , eyeing up and down a Harlequin who 'd appeared beside her . |
| 8 | For example , in the first left-hand chord , the top part moves up and down a semitone , while the bottom two parts do the opposite . |
| 9 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 10 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sometimes he would be climbing up and down a cliff and he found himself stuck , unable to get higher and unable to climb down and once he was left clinging on a ledge for ever . |
| 13 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 14 | I was lying on my back , I was working my legs up and down a lot , |
| 15 | ‘ You have to walk up and down a lot , ’ smiled Neville . |
| 16 | Yeah so when people are saying , Well simple harmonic motion or erm you know throwing a stone up and down that sort of thing roughly is n't it sort of one of them goes up and down a lot like that one of them just goes up once and down same equation . |
| 17 | The dogs were up and down a lot . |
| 18 | It was Yom Kippur , and in one of the breaks in the day-long service , I spied a young dark-haired lad shinning up and down a pillar and asked him if he liked acting . |
| 19 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 20 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 21 | It was a hard days work when you went up and down a drill like that , lift the neep and yeuk lift the neep and yeuk and hope you get |
| 22 | In that erm , in that mermaid outfit , and earning some ridiculous amount of money for an hour , while other models went up and down a catwalk for a tenth of the money , or something . |
| 23 | Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound . |
| 24 | You 'll have to break yourself of the habit of bobbing up and down every time my daughter appears , especially when she looks like this . ’ |
| 25 | Her head goes up and down every time you put a forkful in . |
| 26 | up and down every line . |
| 27 | But instead of a hosereel going up and down the field , you have a tractor and an injector . ’ |
| 28 | Guiding the plough and following the team up and down the field over the uneven ground was very hard and tiring work . |
| 29 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 30 | It is evident that the figures and groups were set up and down the field , surely very much as on the Underworld vase ; only on this wall there were scores of figures and also certainly more indications of setting . |