Example sentences of "up [coord] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every morning at sunrise and every evening at sunset a flag was run up or down the flagstaff on our roof ; it was the company flag but we thought it was Fa 's . |
| 2 | In the late seventies and early eighties , travel to Cosford could sometimes be likened to a cross-polar expedition as athletes and spectators battled through blizzards and packed snow , up or down the M6 and along the A5 , or up the A41 from Wolverhampton . |
| 3 | Slide the chord shape up or down the fretboard into various keys and the scale goes with it , so to speak . |
| 4 | This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws . |
| 5 | The effect of this profoundly important innovation was that members of Congress were required to vote up or down the administration 's complete package of cuts at the beginning of the congressional phase of the budgetary process . |
| 6 | A 15–20 minute drive by car ( included in the price ) leads to quiet beaches and , a further five minutes up or down the coast , are a stretch of interesting small resorts from Bari to Brindisi . |
| 7 | Social mobility can refer to any movement up or down the occupational hierarchy , though sociologists often emphasise cross-class mobility . |
| 8 | On most adjustable looms the vertical beams are fixed and one or both of the horizontal beams , which hold the warp strands in place , can be moved up or down the frame . |
| 9 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 10 | They are executed by drawing a finger rapidly up or down the strings . |
| 11 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
| 12 | The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen . |
| 13 | London 's Waterloo & City tube line , where the 1940 vintage cars sport NSE livery on the outside and Southern Railway ventilator grilles on the inside , and the individualistic Manchester-Bury line , where Lancashire & Yorkshire influence still shines through with battered 1959 BR stock rattling up and down the short , but unique 1,200V DC side contact third rail complete with semaphore signals . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Buses trundle up and down the valley easing the walk-in , and Elbrus even has cable-car access to the snowline and a mountain refuge , Priut , an hour or so above it . |
| 16 | Some say the escalators are controlled by the cones which march up and down the M1 , but I find this fanciful . |
| 17 | Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination . |
| 18 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 19 | Needless to say , that ‘ artist ’ was not selected by Nikki Milican — the festival 's director — who attended hundreds of events up and down the country . |
| 20 | It even admitted that there were ‘ problems ’ — a slight euphemism , given the tens of thousands of people who had attended mass protests up and down the country — and hinted that the government might be to blame . |
| 21 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 22 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 23 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 24 | As I marched up and down the quay , the pipes sounded well . |
| 25 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 26 | I indicated my chest and made like the Happy Wanderer up and down the terrace . |
| 27 | His non-stop verbal explications , declaimed as he strode up and down the crowded aisles , described the gods and mythology and history of the people of Persia ; and his improvisation fitted what was happening in the film as the hair fits the head . |
| 28 | the pictures up and down the house ; |
| 29 | These were subdivided into smaller fields and a cropping rotation devised with the objective of moving production up and down the length of the strip . |
| 30 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |