Example sentences of "run down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 2 | You just want to tuck the board under your arm , run down the beach , paddle out and have fun . |
| 3 | If you have drawn an end position on the line , run down the beach a little wide to give yourself more room . |
| 4 | You could sell the vats , let the men go ; run down the pottery . |
| 5 | The organizer tells a story and , when a couple 's word is mentioned , they jump up and run down the outside of the teams , back to the other end jumping over the legs and then back to their seats . |
| 6 | If the organ music swells this Christmas as we run down the lanes of childhood in search of sentiment or the values of yesterday , and if the early darkness on Christmas evening finds us replete and empty at the same time , maybe its because we have left the Josephs of this world alone in their silent day and all too silent night . |
| 7 | The excess moisture vapour in the air condenses into droplets of water , and these are deposited on the cold surface , first as a fine film that mists up the glass , and then as more moisture is deposited , the droplets combine to form rivulets that run down the surface to form those tell-tale pools of water on window sills and the like , sometimes ruining decoration , and causing window sills and frames to rot and rust . |
| 8 | No run down the line , no line-out , no Cup . |
| 9 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 10 | These run down the valley to the west of the river through Black Hall , Birks and Grassguards farms to Seathwaite village ( 4.5 miles ) . |
| 11 | We run down the other end and have a go at Sunderland fans … and like against Villa when they all got pushed onto the pitch … we 're all in there … |
| 12 | You run down the metal fire escape on the gable end of the building . |
| 13 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 14 | ( Melastomataceae ) , while in the Malay Peninsula , raindrops run down the longitudinally dehisced capsules of Didymocarpus spp . |
| 15 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 16 | Ha ha I 'll walk past this and open the door and then run down the other one and open that one ! |
| 17 | The method of preparing the blank before inserting the cutlery blank is simply to drill and clean out the hole in the shaft before fixing , put the Special T on the tang and insert with the handle on top so the Special T does not run down the wood . |
| 18 | Make sure that the ventilation pipe is unobstructed , and that water can not run down the pipe into the house . |
| 19 | They say we need more rain because most of the downpour will run down the rivers to the sea . |
| 20 | Peach was sitting on the window sill , watching the raindrops run down the outside of the glass and trying to catch them with his paw . |
| 21 | Councils argued that rather than run down the home-help service it was better to charge those who could afford to pay and keep the total level of service . |
| 22 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 23 | Before Christine or Ann or any of the other girls playing realised what was happening , the pram began to run down the steep bank , gathering speed at every turn of its wheels . |
| 24 | I tried to get a better grip but to my horror my fingers began to run down the door like melting plasticine as I watched from my perilous vantage point . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 26 | There has been ( and there may still be ) a tendency to run down the role of the European nobility in the wars so characteristic of the late Middle Ages . |
| 27 | At last , just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry 's burrow , he saw him come out of his hole , followed by no less than three rabbits . |
| 28 | Some people argued that it should be possible to run down the existing hospitals almost entirely , replacing them by short-stay psychiatric units at general hospitals and long-term care within the community . |
| 29 | However much one wanted to run down the existing hospitals , demand for beds would keep them open unless patients were quite unscrupulously discharged while still needing considerable care . |
| 30 | Perhaps now is the time to run down the older methods and , if this is not the case , maybe some additional training is required . |