Example sentences of "and down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A black and vicious claw burst through the woodwork of the door with an explosive crash that echoed up and down the staircase like thunder . |
| 2 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ They run up and down the organisation carrying messages and information and in the past we 've had lots of them because it was the only way of passing information . |
| 4 | Information was designed to flow up and down the organisation to ensure that all decentralised objectives were compatible with , and a part of , the total corporate objective . |
| 5 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 6 | The sliding device that enables the mast foot to be moved up and down the board . |
| 7 | Lights were running up and down the board . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 9 | You have to ensure that everyone is comfortable , that there is space between rows , at the front and down the aisles . |
| 10 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 11 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 12 | Customers collect a basket or trolley at the entrance and then walk up and down the aisles selecting goods . |
| 13 | The final insult came when one player stripped to his underpants and ran up and down the aisles . |
| 14 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 15 | On either side of the steep trail down again , at the end of the hill , grazing ponies lined the track — presumably filling in time between summers , when they earn their living giving children rides up and down the beach . |
| 16 | He swept his friends into his arms and the shouting multiplied and reverberated on and on , up and down the beach and through the distant war-broken theatre of Salamis . |
| 17 | The next night Geoffrey Appleyard went in alone , and after scouting round for the two agents he was to meet , he abandoned all caution , running up and down the beach shouting for them and waving his torch . |
| 18 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 19 | If the wave front approaches parallel to a coastline sand and shingle merely move up and down the beach , but under the more usual conditions of oblique approach the movement is not quite so simple . |
| 20 | The overall volume of transport decreases both up and down the beach from this zone . |
| 21 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 22 | He is ridden up and down the hills at home and , when the weather is reasonable , taken for gallops once or twice a week . |
| 23 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 24 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
| 25 | Prior to the application to Council a research programme financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample years from the Gloucester port books succeeded in devising a database capable of storing and retrieving information about the voyages of boats passing up and down the Severn through Gloucester and the cargoes they carried . |
| 26 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 27 | Our expert tasters , the million cuppa men — they 've all drunk a million cups of tea — go up the northbound carriageway and down the south and assess all on their qualities . |
| 28 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 29 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 30 | Once , on a tour of the Middle East , the gentlemen of the orchestra were watching him swim — cigar in place — up and down the hotel pool . |