Example sentences of "and down [coord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fletcher said : ‘ In the past it has often been an unfair battle between batsmen and spinners in indoor nets , many surfaces have been straight up and down and the ball has n't turned . |
| 32 | The little frog was definitely gazing hard in Maud 's direction , and when it saw Enid turn to look , it began jumping up and down and croaking like a mad thing . |
| 33 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 34 | Then up and up and down and down . |
| 35 | Up and down and over and over , again and again and I 'd marvel at the bulk of prayer they made in any one day . |
| 36 | Penetrating , complex and totally different in structure , it pulls the single line of melody up and down and spins it out to leave you dangling in some sort of musical nirvana . |
| 37 | When it first opened , the service operated 8 passenger trains a day , 4 up and down and 2 daily goods , 6 days a week . |
| 38 | Gioella looked Constance up and down and said , ‘ Really ? |
| 39 | The crossplank was then converted into a sliding rest which moved up and down and a central strut was included , to be positioned according to the size of the canvas . |
| 40 | I knew I was n't being terribly respectful , but I just cupped the telephone , looked her up and down and said : ‘ Well , you could put some shoes on . ’ |
| 41 | Hurry up or I 'll start jerking you up and down and then your hair really will come out and we 'll have enough of it to stuff a sofa ! |
| 42 | On the touchline the class jump up and down and look cold , like in Kes ) |
| 43 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 44 | To balance the tabular ledger the columns should be added across and down and the total debits should equal the total credits . |
| 45 | Try the Terry Wogan Test : jump up and down and if anything wobbles that should n't , it 's fat , and you should think about a diet . |
| 46 | The owner , a posh woman with a hairstyle like an upright honeycomb , looks me up and down and only drawls , ‘ It 's very expensive . ’ |
| 47 | Dragonflies have two pairs of wings which have simple joints to them : they can only move up and down and can not be folded back . |
| 48 | She knew that Harry regarded her sister as his private possession , and was not surprised to see him stamping up and down and growling like a baited bear . |
| 49 | Now if it 's tablets they 've taken we do n't do whatever Angie did years ago in , in Eastenders and , and then she 's walked up and down and given gallons of coffee , what you do is keep your casualty at rest , nil by mouth because you , if you give them any fluid whatsoever it 's going to dilate , dilute the tablets that are in the stomach , and once they 're diluted they 've gone into the system quicker , mm , so there 's nil by mouth , now if you 're going to get up and walk them up and down because come on you must walk up and down , what 's happening to this per these tablets ? |
| 50 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 51 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 52 | The stairs went both ways , up and down and were thickly coated with dust . |
| 53 | He 's still bucking up and down and he 's shaking his head too now and you 're not sure he understands , but it does n't matter all that much . |
| 54 | We travelled up and down and across Britain . |
| 55 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 56 | As I crept downstairs , I could hear Mr Rochester in his room , walking up and down and sighing . |
| 57 | All the birds began to hop up and down and twitter , opening and shutting their beaks . |
| 58 | ‘ Bertha walked up and down and enjoyed herself very much . |
| 59 | Many of the suggestions in this book about ways of using video assume that the person using it is familiar with what the machine can do and so feels confident about finding a place on a tape , stopping and starting at will , turning the sound up and down and so on . |
| 60 | Cassie felt herself spinning out and out and down and down , into a thick and suffocating blackness . |