Example sentences of "[det] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink ! |
| 2 | That 's what I said to Warren , I goes , this is going to Norway , this him fucking Norway ! like that down the microphone . |
| 3 | Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 … |
| 4 | we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ? |
| 5 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 6 | I suddenly discovered I was very much down the bottom of the pile . " |
| 7 | opinions and principles like [ Wilde 's ] have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history , generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay . |
| 8 | Then she saw Lachlan flush , Hector 's mouth twitch and eyes all down the tables exchange glances . |
| 9 | ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years . |
| 10 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 11 | All down the years . |
| 12 | All down the front of your coat |
| 13 | Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy-nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted . |
| 14 | He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve . |
| 15 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 16 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 17 | All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch . |
| 18 | He was scoring off us all down the line . |
| 19 | So anyway , that Christmas Eve night confirmed my worst fears , it was like a kind of ‘ royal flush ’ for the infant Jimbo : all three kings — Pa , Santa and the King of Kings — all down the pan together … |
| 20 | Lili was going to wear a crimson redingote of stiff taffeta with dull pewter buttons all down the front , a skull cap of crimson velvet atop her rusty curls , grey gun-metal stockings and gloves , and Egyptian crimson slippers . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 22 | He can see them , all down the table , leaning forwards over their plates , then back in their chairs , an irregular series of nodding heads like a shop window full of sipping chicken toys . |
| 23 | In winter you can ski cross country all down the valley , or ski downhill at Andermatt , Disentis and Flims . |
| 24 | You 've got a huge red stain all down the back of your shorts . |
| 25 | As far as we could see , ship after ship was anchored all down the outer loch , and as we progressed towards Ullapool we could see that the anchored ships extended right into the bay past Ullapool piers . |
| 26 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 27 | All down the table , white-gloved footmen were removing the soup plates , the men 's all empty , the ladies ' all — all but her own — ; three quarters full still . |
| 28 | She walked all down the room on the bare boards , looking at the paintings on the walls , breathing the smell of paint and turpentine laced with the richness of linseed oil . |
| 29 | ‘ You and Corosini are wrong all down the line . |
| 30 | ‘ I see you 're one step ahead of us all down the line ! |