Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 2 | All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago . |
| 3 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 4 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 5 | For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him . |
| 6 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 7 | Thin silk cords and silver chains hung down from the nets , which Apanage adjusting by pulling and tweaking them . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 9 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 10 | A boom was now built across the River Foyle which connected it , via Lough Foyle , with the open sea , and the 30,000 citizens began a long ordeal by privation and disease , in which many thousands died , while enemy bombs plunged down upon the town . |
| 11 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 12 | Rovers were forced into a pre-match reshuffle as Neil McNab went down with a stomach bug . |
| 13 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 14 | Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ? |
| 15 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 16 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 17 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 18 | Lycian rock tombs glare down onto the two yachts in Tomb Bay |
| 19 | FROM THE opening piston pump and steamhammer beat of Captain Beefheart 's ‘ Hard Working Man ’ , through its coked-up party time desperation , to its despairing sign-off line , this is a provocative , unrelenting and fatalistic look at three Detroit steelworkers ground down by the system . |
| 20 | Malachi Drennan sat down beside the wide fireplace . |
| 21 | Mrs. Mounce looked down at the suitcase . |
| 22 | Miss Jarman sat down with a thump in the matching wing chair on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 23 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 24 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 25 | Along one of its sides the swastika meander breaks down into a confused key pattern . |
| 26 | A walk to the Hadi Gari Bar down by the harbour will take you right through the hustle and bustle of the narrow streets of the old town and can take as little as five minutes , although you 'll be hard pressed not to be distracted by the jewellery , leather and clothes offered by street vendors at every corner . |
| 27 | A myriad becks tumbled down from the hills into the valleys and dales below , cutting a gorge here or following the old meltwater channels there . |
| 28 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 29 | As the floor levelled off the lights flickered and came up , the engine noise settling down to a steady background roar . |
| 30 | Dr Courtney sat down on a sofa . |