Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 2 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 3 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 4 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 5 | I stop too ; climb the natural embankment and look over the homeward stretch down to the pueblo . |
| 6 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 7 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 8 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 9 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 10 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 11 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 12 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 13 | Personally , I do n't like the exercise of feeling a definite pull down from the top of the backswing . |
| 14 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 15 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 16 | ‘ One of the early Dalek episodes had a Thal going down to the shore of a lake at night to collect some water . |
| 17 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 18 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |