Example sentences of "[adv prt] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I told my best friend to start with , and she said " For God 's sake , I 'll book you in down the doctors . " |
2 | I 've put two trees in down the back . |
3 | NME lensman Kevin Cummins is among the photographers featured in Down The Club , an exhibition of dance and nightclub culture taking place at Manchester Polytechnic 's Institute For Popular Culture until September 23 . |
4 | It buttons through down the back , is fitted to the waist and has a full flowing skirt . |
5 | When I came for refreshments , I rushed through down the stairs and back again , walked into the bridewell , and called out for my refreshments . |
6 | Another engine change at Carlisle , No 37010 ex Cardiff Caerleon Depot and off down the WCML for the return trip - a long day , but after all the train took the strain ! |
7 | Alexander ran off down the hall and vanished into the sitting-room . |
8 | As Jenny walked off down the hall with the tray , Cassie shoved the kitchen door partly closed with her foot and darted to the pantry . |
9 | You 're a fool , boy , ’ he said , and clumped off down the hall . |
10 | A FLOTILLA of rafts sailed off down the Mersey to take part in a charity contest at the weekend . |
11 | Mr McDoodle pulled on the reins and they headed off down the drive , past the old hanging tree and out onto the bumpy road . |
12 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
13 | I hen , saying goodbye and wishing me well on my journey , she limped out of the house , down the steps and off down the drive . |
14 | She stood in the window , holding back the heavy curtains , watching as Spencer climbed into his carriage and , with a wave to her , bowled off down the drive towards the roadway . |
15 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
16 | Jessamy scrambled in beside him , then let out a silent sigh of relief as the car moved swiftly off down the drive , leaving the house behind them . |
17 | ‘ Poor old Corbett , ’ said Septimus Coffin , as Penny shoved the books into her briefcase and made off down the drive . |
18 | Theda could hear them arguing even as the horse trotted off down the drive . |
19 | As the Renault set off down the drive , Vitor placed an arm around Ashley 's shoulders . |
20 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
21 | Stringing themselves out in a ragged line , a scout-masterish type at the head , they set off down the valley . |
22 | Dog at his heels as he went off down the road . |
23 | We roared off down the road from the village in the direction of the River Orne . |
24 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
25 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
26 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
27 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
28 | The huge crowd of villagers and visitors sang a selection of hymns with great gusto for about half an hour before the band marched off down the road . |
29 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
30 | ‘ Yes , ’ says I , and watch them poodle off down the road . |