Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 2 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On 18 October , therefore , the British government turned down the new fare proposals from American operators , while the CAA rejected British Airways ' request . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 6 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 7 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 8 | Squeaky Sutton , the landlord of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ for the past thirty years , looked up as the noisy party clattered down the four steps into his cosy cellar bar . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 11 | MORE and more women are turning to expensive cosmetic surgery to slow down the ageing clock — but as our pictures show , it is n't always a cut above less drastic beauty remedies . |
| 12 | Apart from the problem of dealing with large numbers of frightened refugees , there was also an election coming up on 10 May , and the political factions in the town were anxious that nothing should interfere with it , so there was a concerted effort to play down the possible risk . |
| 13 | The Maggot , who refused to wear a seat belt , shoved his throttles forward , and I felt the sweat trickling down my belly as the brakes were released and the small plane thundered down the rough surface . |
| 14 | John Gallagher 's 39th-minute drop goal gave Leeds the edge at 7–6 until Eastwood , 26 , struck after a blistering 40-yard dash down the right flank by Hull centre James Grant . |
| 15 | Eventually one of the studded oak double doors opened and Nadirpur 's Vietnamese manservant trotted down the crumbling stone steps . |
| 16 | This , together with his recent decision to turn down the vacant Senate seat for Pennsylvania , led to speculation that there might be a hidden motive for his departure . |
| 17 | These apparent perversities of James 's syntax become meaningful in the light of an appraisal of his particular concern with psychological realism : his unremitting endeavour to pin down the psychological moment " in the full complexity of its circumambient conditions " . |
| 18 | But the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that , and the night after that , all week they come down , about 40 , 50 of them , from all over … |
| 19 | Consider the boys ' version of the ‘ numbers game ’ at the beginning of ‘ Fighting talk ’ : ‘ and the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that and the night after that , all week , about 40 , 50 , from all over … ’ |
| 20 | Will the Labour party shut down the new gas-fired generating stations , break those contracts and lay off the men ? |
| 21 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 22 | ‘ I love you ! ’ he said shakingly , and bent his dark head to kiss her , desire flaring between them , relief mingling sweetly with it , their mouths clinging and their arms round each other obsessively , twining together like bindweeds on that hot terrace with the scarlet bougainvillaea trailing down the dusty cliffs and the sea glittering turquoise beyond . |
| 23 | The traditional tale of Earl Warrenne founding the custom in 1209 was a later attempt by establishment writers and the Christian Church to play down the early pagan origin of the custom . |
| 24 | But in Britain , television , like the cod-liver oil forced down the gagging throats of Welfare-State children , was supposed to be good for you . |