Example sentences of "down the country [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently . |
| 2 | During the summer , thousands of artists up and down the country queue up with their paintings on handing-in days at local art exhibitions . |
| 3 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , people in market-research panels up and down the country had said they would be delighted to buy a paper like that . |
| 5 | Yet around 105,000 13 and 14-year-olds up and down the country took part in a maths challenge organised by the UK Mathematics Foundation earlier this month . |
| 6 | The occasional listings of inhabitants that survive for places up and down the country make it clear that older married people did not live with their married children , though they were often housed nearby . |
| 7 | The Department of Industry provides CAD information centres up and down the country to give the tyro some help . |
| 8 | In future the accent will be on voluntary service , and unsung , worthy people up and down the country beavering away on charitable work . |
| 9 | I suspect that , when people up and down the country realise the sheer horror of what is being proposed , they will recoil from such an open-ended commitment for massive local government spending . |
| 10 | We spoke to leading hairdressers up and down the country to find out just what they 've got in store for you this year . |
| 11 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
| 12 | I want listeners up and down the country to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism . |
| 13 | We want listeners up and down the country to have the opportunity to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism . |
| 14 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has been rushing up and down the country making what I take it he regards as encouraging noises to Cypriots , Kashmiris and others . |
| 15 | Many of the suspicions which existed when the unit was set up , both about the political motivation for its creation and the likely effects of national monitoring on the curriculum , have been allayed ( if not entirely put to rest ) by the way in which the exercise has been carried out , by the sensitivities displayed by the monitoring teams , by the way in which groups of teachers up and down the country have been involved in the development , trialling and pre-testing of materials , and by the cool , impartial way in which the results have been presented . |
| 16 | Chubby is something of a phenomena , being one of the few stand up comedians able to sell out theatres up and down the country having had very little television exposure . |
| 17 | And it got me thinking that there must be thousands of people up and down the country doing worthwhile things to protect our environment and wildlife who go unrecognised . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield spends a good deal of time travelling up and down the country proclaiming his devotion to training and enterprise councils . |
| 19 | Whatever the British weather has thrown at them , flower growers up and down the country produce their best for the Chelsea Flower Show . |