Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
| 2 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 3 | I put my things down on the big table and sat down , shrugging . |
| 4 | I put my glass down on the nearest table and made my way out of the room . |
| 5 | I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance . |
| 6 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 7 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |
| 8 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 9 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 10 | She took several deep breaths , hoping he would put the sudden bright colour in her cheeks down to the hot coffee she had just swallowed . |
| 11 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 12 | All the trainees dealing with leads obtained from Dun and Bradstreet put their initials down on the white cards they sent out . |
| 13 | Robyn sat on the bed and tipped two tablets into the palm of her hand , resisting the need to lay her head down on the cool pillow . |
| 14 | Suddenly she wanted to put her head down on the big table and howl with misery . |
| 15 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 16 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 17 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 18 | Chancellor Kohl can intimidate mavericks in his Christian Democrat party by threatening to move their names down on the electoral list , exposing them to the risk of defeat at the polls . |
| 19 | Moving out of the path of the crowd , she put her luggage down on the uneven pavement and looked around . |
| 20 | Loyal to their oath down to the last breath , the 6th Army , under the exemplary leadership of General Field Marshal Paulus , succumbed to the superior force of the enemy and the unfavourable conditions . |
| 21 | This applies notably to cowrie shells which partly for this reason have maintained their status down to the ethnographic present in many parts of the world . |
| 22 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 23 | Having been trapped , and being so heavy , it will work its way down to the absolute bottom of wherever it is caught . |
| 24 | There are two cottages here above the beck which passes the church on its way down to the old woollen mill . |
| 25 | When a wind-blown spore — which now can be called pollen — lands on an egg-bearing cone , it germinates , not into a filmy thallus for which there is now no need , but into a long tube which burrows its way down into the female cone . |
| 26 | By measuring the scattering of X-rays by hirudin , when linked to a key blood coagulation factor called thrombin , his team deduced its structure down to the last atom . |
| 27 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 28 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 29 | With the Sky Blues set to overtake the Canaries if they win at Highfield Road , Gould took his team down to the local for pint of two of Guinness ! |
| 30 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |