Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the older men — forty and upwards — they got off the side walk and paced up and down the road — deferential . |
| 2 | With dusk , I was forced to leave the tavern , and paced up and down the muddy street for warmth . |
| 3 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 4 | And flying up and down the stairs full of gin and nooky — no wonder she tripped and crashed all the way down . ’ |
| 5 | And running up and down the platform shouting , Football Post . |
| 6 | I put my head out of the door which was directly beside the hanging space , and looked up and down the corridor . |
| 7 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 8 | Twoflower stepped gingerly over the cooling door and looked up and down the corridor . |
| 9 | They are frequently denied the choice of living in the village in which they were born and brought up or in the village close to their employment . |