Example sentences of "and down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Drive up and down a couple of times , check the area . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And she did ; but the Inglese had disappeared through the window and down a drainpipe . |
| 6 | Both Corbett and Ranulf were dragged unceremoniously off their horses and pushed through the main door of the house and down a passageway which led into the main room or hall . |
| 7 | ‘ I make costumes myself , ’ she told him eagerly , eyeing up and down a Harlequin who 'd appeared beside her . |
| 8 | He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return . |
| 9 | Twelve such operations later , you have your year 's month headings entered , and only then realise that you should have started not at cell A1 ( the top left hand corner of any spreadsheet ) , but in a bit and down a bit — you have to put row headings in as well . |
| 10 | like that , whoop and then the second one you go whoop and down a bit and it 's , all the water splashes you in your face and that 's the same with the fi third one . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 23 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 24 | I was lying on my back , I was working my legs up and down a lot , |
| 25 | ‘ You have to walk up and down a lot , ’ smiled Neville . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The dogs were up and down a lot . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You can now move between the pages of a spreadsheet just by clicking on icons that move up and page and down a page . |
| 30 | Cross over the stile on the left and follow the path down , over the stream and down a slope . |