Example sentences of "up and [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They raised money in a variety of ways , from auctioning sketches of Picasso 's Guernica to showing , up and down the country , the films The Defence of Madrid and Spanish Earth . |
| 32 | Up and down the City Road , |
| 33 | But instead of a hosereel going up and down the field , you have a tractor and an injector . ’ |
| 34 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 35 | Horses which a moment before were just off the pace crashed into the leaders , tipping off their riders and running up and down the fence , preventing any of the horses following from getting over it . |
| 36 | Consequently , some horses will go down in the paddock and eat more grass , others will walk or canter up and down the fence endlessly expecting their food , while others will call , ‘ I want my dinner ! ’ , or strike at their stable doors , or paw at the fencing . |
| 37 | Meese even resembled Porfiry , aimiable and unhurried , ‘ his fat , round little figure … rebounding from every wall and corner ’ as he strolled up and down the room . |
| 38 | Bareback riders tore up and down the slopes , racing one another . |
| 39 | A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself . |
| 40 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he muttered , his glance trailing up and down the columns of print . |
| 41 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 42 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
| 43 | Daniel paced up and down the polished floor from one end of the long room to the other ; his sentences bore the rehearsed solemnity of a stage drama . |
| 44 | 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 ) . |
| 45 | The club 's travels up and down the four divisions in the last 18 years have helped , and he completed the full set of 92 grounds at Watford three or four years ago . |
| 46 | There were no solid divisions between neighbours , and the children played up and down the length of the house . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | ’ At box-offices up and down the land , in Ipswich , Hanley and Rhyl , the crowds are waving their credit cards for the ‘ Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet ’ tour of 25 British towns . |
| 49 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 50 | IT WAS a scene enacted up and down the country on the last Saturday before polling day . |
| 51 | He disputed poll suggestions that a hung parliament was the most likely outcome , pointing to Labour 's strong showing in individual constituency surveys up and down the country . |
| 52 | Even the logistics involved in transporting journalists and television crews up and down the country by bus and plane and , on one day , over the Channel by catamaran , worked smoothly . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | To establish the audience ( and its socio-economic composition ) for television programmes , the Broadcasters ' Audience Research Board has installed special sets and hand-held key pads known as ‘ people meters ’ in homes up and down the country . |
| 55 | Though this Evangelical triumphalism has yet to come to pass , the curious state of affairs already exists in which parents , up and down the country , fear the caring professionals as never before and fear the overtly Christian carers most of all . |
| 56 | Hundreds of ballet classes exist up and down the country , but this one , in Shepherd 's Bush , west London , is special : many of the children are black . |
| 57 | His two-year study of 20 couples reveals that the humble , often smelly male sock is indeed at the centre of a secret linen war being waged up and down the land . |
| 58 | By nightfall , ten thousand victims of the explosion had invaded the Red Cross Hospital , and Dr Sasaki , worn out , was moving aimlessly and dully up and down the stinking corridors with wads of bandages and bottles , binding up the worst cuts as he came to them . |
| 59 | It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap . |
| 60 | Judi took her hands out of her pockets , and brushed her fingers up and down the front of her waistcoat . |