Example sentences of "[noun sg] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 2 | And an hour down the golf range . |
| 3 | It entails beating up some chicken eggs , putting them into a syringe and squirting the uncooked scramble down the bird 's throat . |
| 4 | ‘ Let's stroll a bit down the Boulevard de Waterloo , ’ Marler suggested . |
| 5 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 6 | If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box . |
| 7 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 8 | Later that afternoon , Branson telephoned Clark 's wife , pretending to be the managing director of the company to which Clark was going , and talked gibberish down the telephone . |
| 9 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 10 | Adams set off an a solo run down the left reminiscent of his days at Leeds , and in the end Southampton 's adventure was rewarded leaving Ipswich with nothing to show for an entertaining afternoon 's work . |
| 11 | All the routes out the city are very very busy this evening down the Botley Road , up the Woodstock Road , and down the Abingdon Road . |
| 12 | Putting paid to Daisy 's hour of peace were also hoards of children clambering over pews , chasing each other down the aisles , punching their mothers , and having to be repeatedly hushed for talking . |
| 13 | I slept later than usual next morning , and woke to see half past nine on my bedside clock , and a cascade of raindrops chasing each other down the window . |
| 14 | They look at each other down the aisle . |
| 15 | Encouraged by her lack of resistance , he very slowly began to inch down the waist band of her panties . |
| 16 | In the final stages of this journey , Ease Gill can be seen half a mile down the slope on the right . |
| 17 | Straggling , catching up with one another , keeping more or less together , they had wandered over half a mile down the fields , always following the course of the brook . |
| 18 | Only a handful of reporters now cover the inquiry , and their stories slip day by day down the news schedules , overtaken by fresh nightmares and by disasters which are simpler , easier to comprehend . |
| 19 | Three , no twice a week down the Fen . |
| 20 | He slipped through the open toilet door and saw Lee standing half way down the long , flagged passage . |
| 21 | An imaginary line half way down the foot is compatible to the body 's waist line ; so the organs in the upper part of the body have reflex areas in the upper foot and the lower organs are linked to the lower foot . |
| 22 | ‘ Just another five minutes , ’ Nick begged , not taking his eyes from the ball as he whacked it half way down the table . |
| 23 | The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres . |
| 24 | I was half way down the alley between the walls with the hope bright before me that my patient would be improved when from nowhere an appalling explosion of sound blasted into my right ear . |
| 25 | Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body . |
| 26 | Yet she was pleased , nevertheless , to see him sitting half way down the church , resplendent in silver grey and the very fanciest of brocade waistcoats imaginable . |
| 27 | To look for small changes in the transition frequency , it is sufficient to take measurements at two points , one each side of the central peak , roughly half way down the peak . |
| 28 | As it was I got Doreen because Duncan was half way down the garden path ( all three feet of it ) on his way to the pub . |
| 29 | Half way down the passageway , the van stopped moving . |
| 30 | A year down the line Pitcher , who after all is chief executive , feels unable to confirm if van Geest is officially permanent or not . |