Example sentences of "and down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep left along the wall and down to a gully with Caperby below . |
| 2 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 3 | Carole Ann Ford had just begun a crossing from one side to the other when , without warning , the supports gave way , pitching her over and down to a very rough landing at the foot of ‘ the cliff ’ . |
| 4 | Homeless and down to a fiver . |
| 5 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 6 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 7 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 8 | ‘ all the witches dance here at midnight : and those who go may see their own ghosts walking up and down with a little Billet on the back , giving the names of those who had wished them there . |
| 9 | Arlene looked her up and down with a practised eye . |
| 10 | He jumps up and down with a vague look of aggression on his face , puts his hand on his hips and shows us his pot belly . |
| 11 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 12 | He folded brawny arms across his chest , eyeing her taut , curvy body up and down with a leisured , insolent appraisal . |
| 13 | He got up and down with a pitch to a yard , and holed from ten feet at the fifteenth and eighteenth to make the top 20 . |
| 14 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 15 | There 's these springy sort of things bouncing up and down on a string like they 're alive . |
| 16 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 17 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 18 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 19 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 20 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 21 | The clothes were boiled in a copper over a wood fire , rubbed up and down on a wash board , then squeezed through a hand-turned mangle . |
| 22 | Physically they are amazing , you can jump up and down on a cockroach , and they still get up and walk away . |
| 23 | Off home to jump up and down on a picture of Long John Silver . |
| 24 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 25 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 26 | He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed . |
| 27 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 28 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 29 | Through fences and barb-wire , over the top of a rocky hill , and down into a hidden valley . |
| 30 | She said his name , the sound of it muffled against the pressure of his lips , and he murmured something back to her , moved with sudden fierceness , and the final thrust of his body sent them both tumbling down and down into a completely new dimension . |