Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 2 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 3 | And there are steps going down from the drawing room , and up from the dining room . |
| 4 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 5 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 6 | Ashley 's eyes drifted down from the screen and she frowned . |
| 7 | A row of yellow , baleful eyes looked down from the darkness among the rafters . |
| 8 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 9 | Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music . |
| 10 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 11 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 12 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 13 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 14 | There is a comfy lounge , a bar and a stylish TV room and the traditional style dining-room boasts an amazing rococo fantasy of cherubs and angels looking down from the building 's original ceiling . |
| 15 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 16 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 17 | A very steep paths leads down from the summit . |
| 18 | All things have drawbacks , however , and the sulphurous fumes wafting down from the crater were distinctly smelly , and the occupants of the tunnel awoke in the morning with headaches and mouths that tasted like the bottom of a parrot 's cage . |
| 19 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 20 | Trent watched the policemen drop down from the vehicle ; four of them . |