Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 2 | Isabella now sent Henry of Lancaster to the lordship of Glamorgan to hunt down the king and the younger Despenser . |
| 3 | If not , the batting options are almost limitless — including the possibility of Gooch dropping down the order , as he did for several one-dayers in India , and Mark Lathwell opening with Alec Stewart . |
| 4 | The government with effect from March 15 imposed restrictions at its border with Hungary to slow down the inflow of East Europeans . |
| 5 | we 'll go straight up to Taughmonagh go down the town early in the morning and I 'll take you to the shop where they maybe get you a rugby jumper |
| 6 | Russell pretty good figures , this is er fifteenth over , two for seventeen , eight maidens , giving the one wicket that goes field him for thirty-four and he comes up again , that little hop and bowls to DaSilva goes down the pitch , tips this one up to mid-on , but er wo n't get one as figure Lawrence is there to stop it , so no run , to play to sixteen overs , seven twenty eight . |
| 7 | Once settled , we continued our walk , picking our way along the shoreline to Ravenscar to hunt down the shale fossils there . |
| 8 | On Jan. 31 the federal Collective State Presidency announced that it had ordered ( unspecified ) " special measures " to try to end the violence ; according to unofficial reports a majority of the Presidency members had voted two days earlier against sending federal troops to Kosovo to put down the unrest . |
| 9 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |