Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [coord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She walked up and down the street , calling Griselda , though the cat had never been known to come when it was called .
2 Somehow the pins in her hair always seemed to escape when she lost her temper and the dark tresses whirled round her shoulders as she walked up and down Oswin 's bedroom .
3 A smile still hovering round her mouth , she glanced up and through the mirror .
4 Outside , she looked up and down the road ; then turning to Millie , she said , ‘ There 's nobody here now . ’
5 She looked up and down the quiet street , where the lights made golden leafy spaces in the trees .
6 As she left the phone box , she looked up and down the street for other shops .
7 Furtively she looked up and down the street .
8 Any exertion would result in long coughing bouts and Mother never complained about the hours of sleep lost each night as she ran up and down stairs with bowls of steaming inhalants , aspirators and balsams in an attempt to ease his suffocating agony .
9 Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria .
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