Example sentences of "up [coord] down a " in BNC.

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1 The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction .
2 where it makes sense and is practicable , the pupil may be moved up or down a key stage for the subject in question by placing him or her in a teaching group in which the majority of pupils are older or younger …
3 If the ground is hard , and even a bit bumpy , the ball will usually bumble its way quite satisfactorily up or down a bank and distance is fairly easy to judge .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return .
8 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 .
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 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 .
11 Up and down a few more hills .
12 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times .
13 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
14 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
15 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
16 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
17 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times .
18 if only to reduce the number of 100 metre ( 330 ft ) round trips up and down a fully paid-out set of lines , which always seems to happen when you are on your own !
19 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 .
20 They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes .
21 It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure .
22 The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line .
23 The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality .
24 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 .
25 Oh , yeah that 's it ! 22 players kicking a leather sphere up and down a big piece of grass !
26 When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second .
27 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 .
28 Though its popularity goes up and down a little according to the fashion of the year , the genre is plainly here to stay .
29 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 .
30 There was a grey squirrel nipping up and down a hazel tree near the stream .
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