Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when her tears mixed with the salty tears that fell down the great beast 's cheek , the spell was released , and he stood before her , a golden-haired young man in hunting-costume . |
| 2 | who , who was it that brought down the human race ? |
| 3 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 4 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |
| 5 | She balled her fists and fought down the growing desolation inside her . |
| 6 | Without a moment 's delay Aunt Tossie got up and sailed down the long room , the ends of her boa floating out behind her , careless majesty in her gait . |
| 7 | As I sat there , the china spewed forth from the open door and cascaded down the ready-made ramp into my lap . |
| 8 | The midday sun glinted against the bronze bas-reliefs of famous battle scenes on Napoleon 's column as Chantal steered the Harley-Davidson through the place de l'Opéra and turned down the busy rue de la Paix . |
| 9 | A man emerged from a nearby tobacconist 's , lit his pipe , and threw down the lighted match , causing an explosion which blew out the windows of the Bank . |
| 10 | A French lieutenant holding a bunker in the village noted that under the bombardment ‘ this vast block , 30 metres square , oscillated , at times actually rising up , like a ship ’ Yet still the suicide machine-gun nests stayed behind in the pulverised debris and mowed down the German assault waves . |
| 11 | I climbed the two flights of stairs and walked down the rickety balcony which led to Ellen 's small end room . |
| 12 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 13 | As the last echoes of American drawl died away we scrambled up the final pitch and slithered down the dangerous descent in near darkness . |
| 14 | She touched her soft cheeks , the once-proud cheekbones lost beneath a covering of fat and pulled down the sagging flesh beneath her bloodshot eyes ; she had never been beautiful , now she was merely plain . |
| 15 | Potter made straight for the peak and plummeted down the perpendicular drop : the lip curled over him and he was inside the tube . |
| 16 | As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision . |
| 17 | And then Josie whispered , ‘ Follow me , ’ and started down the carpeted stairway to the lower level . |
| 18 | While in theory multiple images would seem to be a way of enriching the screen 's information , in practice it was usually just distracting and slowed down the narrative speed . |
| 19 | As the girl tilted her face up to her tall mother her hat fell off and , the mother 's fingers clasping the head , the hair came loose and fell down the black coat like a cascade of shining water , as soft-looking as a swathe of new mown grass . |
| 20 | Some children broke in and trampled down the surviving patch of ramsons . |
| 21 | ‘ So I 've noticed , ’ said Meredith , and he pushed past him impatiently and ran down the grand staircase in search of Bunny . |
| 22 | Ruth went out of the house and ran down the steep moorland path all the way to Ilkley . |
| 23 | A single globular tear crept from the white blank of Telemachus ' eye and ran down the giant mask . |
| 24 | Spitting it on to the floor , he raised the half-empty bottle to his lips and drank down the fiery vodka in great gulps , as if to drown the useless curses which rose in his throat . |
| 25 | GERMANY caved in yesterday and shot down the controversial party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the V2 rocket . |
| 26 | Talks eventually opened in June 1991 [ see pp. 38300-01 ] but broke down the following month [ see p. 38356 ] . |