Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 2 | Barney gave in to her pleas , and agreed to transport the canoe down to the Little Avon river on the roof-rack of the Armstrong after lunch . |
| 3 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 4 | The irritating thing is , he could not be bothered to put the sandwich down during the whole scene , and when she surfaced , she found his lip dripping with tomato seeds . |
| 5 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 6 | Other documents to which Shaughnessy was given access included a series of DIA Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summaries ( DITSUMs ) issued in the second half of 1988 warning against renewed threats of attack on US interests , particularly as a consequence of the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in July . |
| 7 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 8 | He set the basket down on the low table by the oven , then turned back , looking at the boy . |
| 9 | Jimmy had laid the girl down on the rough floor . |
| 10 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 11 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 12 | As he pushed the nose down for the final approach , he extended down the undercarriage . |
| 13 | Valerie shuddered and set the coffee-pot down on the white wrought-iron table . |
| 14 | But in 1956 Arkell changed his mind and ( partly , one suspects , for the sake of tidiness ) pushed the Callovian down into the Middle Jurassic . |
| 15 | Here it was binding as covering the period down to the early part of 1945 , and as from that time full rent is payable . |
| 16 | He put the phone down with the usual feeling of life at present , that he could strike forward forever and only land up farther behind . |
| 17 | I put the phone down on the greedy little tyke . |
| 18 | He tucked the knife behind his seat and climbed backwards out of the cab down onto the loose stones and sand . |
| 19 | He tap-loaded the next cartridge , not bothering to use the cumbersome ramrod , but just slamming the rifle 's butt hard on the ground in hope that the blow would jar the ball down to the loose charge . |
| 20 | After a while , though , she pulled herself together and , leaving one copy on her desk , took the other down to the secretarial room and asked if someone could run her off two more copies , ideally before the board meeting . |
| 21 | He tucked the ticket down into the top pocket of his official tunic . |
| 22 | The pallbearers laid the coffin down in the clear space at the exact centre of the cemetery , and moved to the edges , standing amidst the grave markers like ragged vultures . |
| 23 | He would say ‘ Goodnight all ’ ( although she would be the only other person in the room ) , and then he would take the lift down to the chilly autumn street and Blackfriars station , all soot and sickly neon . |
| 24 | By this time every gentleman knew what was expected of him : Cameron never dismounted , he leaned from the saddle and passed the paper down to the angry , helpless proprietor and took it back signed . |
| 25 | I put the suitcase down on the other bed and began packing the contents of the drawers into it . |
| 26 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 27 | He snarled with fear and pointed the revolver down at the white blur of the face and fired — |
| 28 | Alice set the torch down on the sacrificial slab . |
| 29 | He reduced this to a quarter and set the glass down on the wooden table with a clatter . |
| 30 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |