Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nodded , spilling juice down her front so that it trickled down the pop star 's face . |
| 2 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 3 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 4 | Melissa smiled fondly as she put down the phone . |
| 5 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 6 | And your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper for her pussy , so when she slides down the banister and says like blurgh , la blah la blah loo ! |
| 7 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 8 | This spirit can only travel in a straight line , so when it slides down the roof in the hope of gaining entry to a house , it will be swept up in the air again by the curving gable . |
| 9 | In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line . |
| 10 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 11 | If Caps Lock is on and you hold down the shift key , lower case letters are typed |
| 12 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 13 | He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room . |
| 14 | If you where your hand is now if you look down the bottom , no no on the on the other side there , there are two strips . |
| 15 | Now when you look down the microscope through the graticule what one sees is twenty five randomly spaced dots overlying your er section . |
| 16 | It returned even after I stripped down the tank and started again . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're laughing , ’ said my mother coldly as she put down the phone ; |
| 18 | The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one ! |
| 19 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 20 | The Duke had cause for worry , yet as he strolled down the rue Royale he was forced to put a brave face on the desperate odds lest his enemies took courage from his despair.The Duke could also cling to one strong hope , namely that his scratch army would not fight Napoleon alone , but alongside Prince Blücher 's Prussians . |
| 21 | The yacht pitched forward as they slid down the bow wave . |