Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 2 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
| 3 | At snow falling down the blinded door . |
| 4 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 5 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 6 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 7 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 8 | The law lays down the general principle , and the doctor who acts skilfully , reasonably , and in good faith is protected . |
| 9 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 10 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 11 | The barmaid turned down the chintzy bed cover . |
| 12 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 13 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 14 | The question presented itself at yesterday 's Foyle 's lunch in Mayfair , when the distinguished scientist Sir Rudolf Peierls took an early siesta during an interesting speech by Lord Zuckerman , whose new book we were celebrating , and who at that very moment looked down the top table and described Peierls , rightly , as ‘ one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists ever ’ . |
| 15 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 16 | You might say ham put down the Spanish ham . |
| 17 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |
| 18 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 19 | Nutty practised the crawl in her bath and the water dripped down the light cord in the dining-room below and collected in the glass bowl-shaped shade . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never seen anything so magnificent , ’ she said , and stared at the water cascading down the three-tier construction . |
| 21 | Water pouring through into the kitchen water pouring down the electric wire of the lamp in the study ! |
| 22 | LENNOX LEWIS last night threw down the ultimate gambit to world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe saying : ‘ If fighting me is so personal , let's do it and send all the money to Africa . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Feel worse , ’ I said glumly , watching the water cascade down the concrete stair-case of the spillway . |
| 24 | But with up to 6,000 pounds of fuel a minute gushing down the 4-inch pipe , the danger is kept to a minimum . |
| 25 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 26 | I think the only thing that 's holding him up is making up his mind whether to get married first , and have a wife sitting down the other end of the table . ’ |
| 27 | Now the bare earth was pitted and ravaged and , during the monsoon rains , torrents of water swept down the loosened topsoil , carving out gullies and chasms that crumpled occasionally into landslides . |
| 28 | Many will see this paper as a fundamental attack on the NHS , a means by which a free service slides down the slippery slope of privatisation . |
| 29 | He is best imagined as an old-fashioned sawbones before the invention of anaesthetics , carving away placidly while an assistant holds down the screaming patient . |
| 30 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |