Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb base] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 2 | Burkett 's daughter would saddle up a horse and ride down the east shore of Derwent Water to the Lodore landing stage . |
| 3 | Press into a little china , glass or glazed earthenware pot or terrine and smooth down the top . |
| 4 | After selecting number 2 into the current colour box , go to FUNCTION in the top menu bar and hold down the mouse button . |
| 5 | On reaching the bothy , turn south and head down the valley . |
| 6 | Cantona tried hard to get involved , and within five minutes might have stolen the show , had it not been for a fine interception by Keith Curle following a fine run and cross down the left by Lee Sharpe . |
| 7 | On balance , it was his wish to defend sterling by interventionist methods , to check activity at home and keep down the sterling price of imports , rather than curb the flow of money , that dictated much of his policy . |
| 8 | In spite of the temptation to get the car warmed up , I switch off the engine and wind down the window . |
| 9 | From the start , go right and pick up two crates , now kill the guard and the policeman , get the third crate and travel down the lift , at the bottom go right and kill the policeman , keep going right until you fall off the edge of the platform . |
| 10 | Push the crate left onto the button , stand on the conveyor belt , duck and go left , jump up two platforms and crawl right , through the wall , collect the speaker , go back out of the cave and jump up , go right at the top and fall down the hole , go right and jump over the crate and push it left onto the button , go up on the lift , then right , jump onto the crate on the top platform and push it right , then left onto the button . |
| 11 | Sapt will get the key from the Duke and let down the drawbridge . |
| 12 | Next time you go shopping , make a list of five different types of goods and note down the way each was priced . |
| 13 | Drill pilot holes and screw down the face plate , then fit escutcheon plates and door handle . |
| 14 | Confidently and calmly explain your predicament and write down the person 's description as soon as possible in case you decide to contact the police . |
| 15 | Gabriel blushed violently and felt the sweat spring through his palms and trickle down the hilt of his tin sword . |
| 16 | This would drive up the price of securities and drive down the rate of interest . |
| 17 | might well succumb to Ottawa pressures and close down the station once again . |
| 18 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 19 | If we are feeling ambitious we can then take train and ferry to the top of the South Island and proceed down the West Coast . |
| 20 | The Suffolk 's head is big with a broad forehead , and often with a star on it or a shim or blaze down the face ; the neck deep in the collar and tapering to a graceful setting of the head ; the shoulders long and muscular and thrown well back at the withers . |
| 21 | These would undoubtedly deter smaller corporations and bring down the incidence of corporate crime , particularly amongst the relatively smaller national-bound corporations , and even those larger corporations whose capital equipment is relatively fixed and who need the local more specialized work force . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 23 | They 'll call up his friends and breathe down the line . |
| 24 | I gather up my shirt in silence and start down the ladder . |
| 25 | The rest of your army is there purely to support these guys and tie down the enemy while your core units get to work . |
| 26 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 27 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 28 | Add the position of his feet being wide apart and he is unable to get out of the way or play down the line . |
| 29 | Stress can also drain out of the glass as well as drip into it , and the process of overcoming the problems of stress and anxiety is about learning how to turn off the stress tap and drain down the stress glass . |
| 30 | You check your flaps before setting the angle and accelerate down the runway into the wind . |