Example sentences of "up and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And flying up and down the stairs full of gin and nooky — no wonder she tripped and crashed all the way down . ’ |
| 2 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 3 | While the equipment is being set up people come in from their work outside and visitors start arriving from up and down the Whanganui river . |
| 4 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 5 | ‘ They seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely , making a lot of noise , rushing dramatically up and down the stairs , spraying the fire-hoses everywhere , and throwing the occasional bottle or glass at the other side . ’ |
| 6 | Clearly , all flats located in the northern part of the building enjoy views both up and down the river , because the building is located in a concave curve of the Thames . |
| 7 | Most of the hour Richard spent pacing up and down the corridor , stopping at windows to look out between the buildings at bare trees and transparent hedges . |
| 8 | ( When this portrait is removed , apparently , which it was once , early in this century , the ghost of Webb gallops noisily up and down the stairs . ) |
| 9 | Others die from collisions with vessels travelling up and down the river , and from explosions carried out during river bank construction . |
| 10 | Was he still rushing up and down stairs shouting at the top of his voice in case anyone had missed his presence ? |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'm sick of heaving trays up and down the stairs . |
| 12 | His hand reached out , feeling up and down the wall for the light switch . |
| 13 | ‘ Before his lead goes on , he enjoys being chased up and down the stairs and around the hall . |
| 14 | Feeling up and down the wall to his right , Mungo searched for a light switch . |
| 15 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 16 | If she was out with other riders on the road , and they stopped to alter stirrups or to open gates , she was walked up and down the road until the others were ready . |
| 17 | In honour of Richard Phibbs , I walked up and down Harmony Hill , although there was nothing special to see there . |
| 18 | We 'd come gently up and down hill , but not much further on the ground fell away abruptly , according to the map 's contour lines , with too hard a climb on the return . |
| 19 | Occasionally , the head of the house would commute up and down the river by paddle steamer during the week , visiting the Stock Exchange and attending to business , but apart from those few and the servants , the street was deserted . |
| 20 | Agnes looked up and down the street anxiously . |
| 21 | One creeps up and down stairs . |
| 22 | a tile-hung front at Oakley Station , west of Basingstoke ; knapped flint at Trowse , by Norwich ; Midland brick on the Syston and Peterborough line , at Brooksby , Oakham , Manton … pretty Broseley tiles to enliven the waiting-room at Shrub Hill station in Worcester ; the diaper of blue bricks ( a local speciality ) on red in the North Staffordshire 's Elizabethan stations ; fierce and unrelieved Accrington brick at Bolton , and elsewhere up and down Lancashire . |
| 23 | Men in civilian clothes moved up and down the steps leading into the narrow three-storey building . |
| 24 | The occupational therapist had asked Esther 's husband to prepare a downstairs bathroom and toilet for Esther , as she thought she would never be able to go up and down stairs on her own . |
| 25 | Friends clamoured to escape the trauma of walking endlessly up and down Glasgow 's Byres Road with a bottle of Hirondelle looking for a party to gatecrash , and so these Hogmanay house parties swelled in numbers yearly until the queue for the bathroom in the morning rivalled McDonald 's in Red Square . |
| 26 | A terrific midwife hales them up and down stairs to the first antenatal session . |
| 27 | His knees clicked when he went up and down stairs . |
| 28 | He waved his hand up and down the road . |
| 29 | There was a man walking up and down the corridor outside . |
| 30 | ‘ Another atrocity , gentlemens , ’ said the Feldwebel , walking up and down the corridor . |