Example sentences of "[noun sg] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 2 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 3 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 4 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 5 | He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress . |
| 6 | She had long , black hair down to the waist of her tight satin bodice . |
| 7 | Her hair down from the secret of her ears , |
| 8 | A new scar ran from the line of his jaw down into the collar of his open tunic , and Jehan guessed that Artai had broken the law which forbade the ill-treatment of captives , and he frowned . |
| 9 | At last Couville put his goblet down on the floor beside him . |
| 10 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Honestly , Reg … ’ began Bob , trying to get one foot down on the floor behind him . |
| 12 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 13 | The mob rose and attacked Gaunt 's palace of the Savoy , hanging his coat of arms upside down as the sign of a traitor . |
| 14 | The inevitable happened and I was off , dangling upside down on the end of the rope seconds later , 30 feet below , parallel to my climbing companions . |
| 15 | To get plant out of the pot , turn it upside down with the stem between your fingers and give the pot a gentle knock . |
| 16 | ‘ The poltergeist has tried to smother my boyfriend and we once found the baby 's cot turned upside down with the baby on the floor . |
| 17 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 18 | You 've got to put the basin upside down in the middle of the tin or the ducklings 'll fall in and drown . ’ |
| 19 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
| 20 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 21 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 22 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 23 | Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle . |
| 24 | He glanced at her as she set the tray down on the table between them , then frowned , seeing how Karr was staring at her . |
| 25 | The young woman put the tray down on the table beside the bed and began gathering up the books and papers off the bedspread . |
| 26 | Second , the political response to a rapid deterioration in the economy implies a greater probability of a coup d'état or a battening down of the hatches by the government . |
| 27 | The strip is easy to apply , simply put it white side down on the squares to be corrected and rub gently but firmly with a ball point pen on the back of the strip . |
| 28 | But if ever you are in real difficulties , send the car down to the jail about midnight and I will come and show you how to get out of them . ’ |
| 29 | In the evenings we trundled a wheelbarrow down to the banks of the Dee and collected driftwood for the fire , because at 500 feet above sea-level , even after roasting days , when the sun went down it was cool enough to need it . |
| 30 | You will see where the corner between the top of the nostril and the eyebrow is rounded over and the cuts are made both from the nostril up and from the eyebrow down , forming a gradual taper down towards the mouth in the process . |