Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 2 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 3 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 4 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 5 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 6 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 7 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 8 | they were lying down the other day |
| 9 | Looking our of the aircraft window , we were flying down the Red Seat coast , the water aquamarine , coral reefs pale and shimmering beneath the water surface . |
| 10 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 11 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 13 | All you need to do is write down the basic outline of the story , with relevant names , departments , and an office-hours telephone number , and pass it on to one of our contact points . |
| 14 | But Courier is playing down the fourth-round confrontation at Flushing Meadow , insisting : ‘ I see it as my next match — and every match is a new challenge . |
| 15 | The process is repeated down the entire column of figures . |
| 16 | Thus , in some cases where the covenant is all , or substantially all , the consideration , a consequence of a finding of unreasonableness is to strike down the whole contract . |
| 17 | There they had been born , their wicker bassinette had been bumped down the shallow flight of steps to the pavement by their trim nursemaid , young men had called , but not one of the three tall sisters had emerged from the house as a bride . |
| 18 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 19 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 20 | It was twilight and a brilliant new moon was gliding down the bright end of the sky , followed by a cascade of stars . |
| 21 | He was hurrying down the long room , with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand . |
| 22 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 23 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 24 | With Penry in front of her to see she did n't slip , their progress was slow down the steep path towards the strip of land which formed the waist of the figure-of-eight . |
| 25 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 26 | At the height of the heatwave , with Hurley in Washington , Coleman finally had to notify the embassy that he was closing down the listening post and moving into the hotel across the street to save the equipment as well as the family from overheating . |
| 27 | Lord Deverill was standing down the far end of the room , staring out of a window across the estate . |
| 28 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 29 | The privilege of holding a market or fair was extended down the social hierarchy as the Middle Ages progressed , and the royal records are full of references to grants of markets and fairs as the economy developed . |
| 30 | Suddenly , as his hands closed over her breasts , she realised that the black lace jacket of her suit was somehow unbuttoned and he was tugging down the lacy bra cups , whispering hotly against her naked throat , and as his head moved lower and his mouth closed hotly over her erect nipples she twisted beneath him , moaning , clutching his dark head as she felt his teeth graze her with agonising pleasure . |