Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] 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 | I put my glass down on the nearest table and made my way out of the room . |
| 3 | I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance . |
| 4 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Suddenly she wanted to put her head down on the big table and howl with misery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Moving out of the path of the crowd , she put her luggage down on the uneven pavement and looked around . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 14 | Having been trapped , and being so heavy , it will work its way down to the absolute bottom of wherever it is caught . |
| 15 | There are two cottages here above the beck which passes the church on its way down to the old woollen mill . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | John ran his float down to the inside stantion of the old railway bridge . |
| 23 | ‘ The ole cow saw me clump 'im frew the office winder an' she phoned fer the police , ’ he said as he put his mug down on the wooden table . |
| 24 | Putting his glass down on the low coffee-table , Ashley sat quietly in a corner of the sofa . |
| 25 | He put his glass down on the circular table , and inspected the rolled up sun-shade that protruded from the centre of the table like an unopened flower . |
| 26 | Lepine makes his way down to the ground-floor cafeteria where the nursing student Barbara Maria Kleuznick is standing by the cash and service area , and he kills her with two shots . |
| 27 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 28 | Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun . |
| 29 | Beyond this palace , turn to your right down into the Italian quarter by following the stairs of St John 's Hill ( Jánský vršek ) to the bottom . |
| 30 | Should you get your luggage down as the express hurls itself through Lower Poppleton ? ) |