Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 2 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 3 | He stood silent beside the sofa , the black disc of the revolver trained on her , his face half in shadow from the harsh light shining down from the ceiling . |
| 4 | The functional association of two domains can then be interpreted through a hierarchical search extending down from the initial checking for the intersection of geometric domains , through an entity or edge condition check , into that for the relationships of the sub-surfaces contained within the spatial intersection . |
| 5 | The beds in the dormitory pull down from the wall and have hard plastic mattresses . |
| 6 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 7 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 8 | The ‘ mouthpiece ’ and the ‘ horn ’ of the trumpet are both open , and a coil hangs down from the middle . |
| 9 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 10 | At the Church Meeting on the 9th , we appointed Jim Brooks as our new church secretary in succession to Malcolm Brown who had intimated in June his desire to step down from the post . |
| 11 | Several stranded passengers looked on as the driver stepped down from the cab and was arrested . |
| 12 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 13 | In a gallery of stalactites , baobab roots seeking water winding down from the roof , we asked Sapan what the island was called . |
| 14 | " Hazel , " said Speedwell suddenly , " there 's a rabbit coming down from the warren . |
| 15 | Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats . |
| 16 | As he walked across to the aircraft — which by then had taxied towards the buildings — he says he saw a dog jump down from the cockpit , before the pilot . |
| 17 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 18 | They confirmed there was a landing before the platoon moved down from the hill and astride the road west of Dili , where a Bren gun team caught a marching column of Japanese . |
| 19 | The road drops down from the col into the valley with an exhilarating suddenness and you are then in Arreau . |
| 20 | In the corner a rope hung down from the ceiling . |
| 21 | Usually there was the sound of music drifting down from the flat above , the knock of the postman , and the chink of bottles as the milkman delivered the morning milk . |
| 22 | So if you have a look at the idea of communication flowing down from the top of the structure lower down then w what 's that communication going to be including ? |
| 23 | ‘ We had a Greyhound come down from the moor once . |
| 24 | A white waterfall of plaster burst down from the ceiling and slapped and pattered all over him . |
| 25 | On being told that the men still unaccounted for could not be contacted by the trapped men , the Manager asked for a volunteer to go down from the surface and search inwards from the main shaft . |
| 26 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 27 | As the point of the bayonet moved down from the level of his chest he acted without thinking . |
| 28 | I suddenly saw a burning plane coming down from the sky … with its nose pointing towards the apartment buildings . |
| 29 | Similarly , in 1469 he speaks of the rising against Edward IV as a whirlwind coming down from the North ( 14 , pp.531 , 542 ) . |
| 30 | A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow . |