Example sentences of "[noun sg] down [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose . |
| 2 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 3 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 4 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 5 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
| 6 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 7 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 8 | Back in the classroom it is not always easy to translate the high tech knowledge down to a child 's level . |
| 9 | The Daughter dodged an elbow thrust , and brought the majorette rod down on the Sandrat 's back . |
| 10 | From the village there is a three mile causeway down to the water 's edge where there are reed-beds . |
| 11 | Less than 20 minutes walk from the centre of Sorrento , guests can take the lift down to the hotel 's private beach or use the adult and children 's sea-water pools . |
| 12 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 13 | One threatened to bed down on a couple 's settee while they slept on a purchase , while an angry consumer from Redcar had to call police to get rid of another salesman . |
| 14 | Finally , she grabbed hold of the dispenser 's cooling fin whilst it was waving a krill doughnut around in a vain attempt to attract custom , pulled it close and , in a casual and unremarkable manner , moved her hand down to the dispenser 's access plate and ran her fingers around the seam until she felt a magnetic bolt buzzing beneath her fingers . |
| 15 | ‘ The first man I hear saying anything bad about our mistress will receive this in his face , ’ and he banged his great heavy hand down on the maltster 's table . |
| 16 | The foot is aimed at the face of the opponent and the kicking leg is bent at the knee in a snap motion down across the opponent 's face . |
| 17 | With luck , with extreme luck , the curtain would n't go all the way down to the river 's bed . |
| 18 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 19 | Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf . |
| 20 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |