Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] down the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 2 | When the thumping and cheering had died away Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke rose to her feet fingering her pearls and smoothing down the flounces of her garden party frock . |
| 3 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 4 | And that 's what they 're doing , they 're coming into peoples gardens and rushing down the sewers again , you know ? |
| 5 | Turn back the flaps , allow the moisture time to dry , then brush a mastic compound on to the roof boards and press down the flaps firmly . |
| 6 | Current rating legislation is contained in three Acts of Parliament ( the Local Government Finance Act 1988 , the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and the Non-domestic Rating Act 1992 ) and about 100 items of associated secondary regulations that lay down the processes and procedures governing the system . |
| 7 | ‘ Nova Scotia ’ is a laid-back , somewhat funky groove hidden inside an eggshell rhythm , defying all the traditions but laying down the ground-rules for a music destined to be the ‘ rock ’ of the future . |
| 8 | Some varieties might engineer waterfalls that wear down the rocks faster , and hence speed into solution the raw materials needed to make new clays further downstream . |
| 9 | After pushing the desk and all the other furniture to the walls , she spread out four maps on the floor , matching the edges and weighing down the corners with whatever came to hand — the wastepaper basket , the little tin box , the gun . |
| 10 | ‘ Then there was a dash to shut the windows and pull down the blinds . |
| 11 | We have begun the job of raising educational standards and breaking down the barriers between the vocational and the academic routes . |
| 12 | Observers have described the move as a significant change of direction for the agency , a government body , which has hitherto emphasized the economics of catching whales and played down the benefits of active conservation . |
| 13 | And then when the war came he er he was one of the first Bevan boys that , one of the boys that went down the mines to relieve the miners . |
| 14 | It is like the wind that hurtled across the desert or whistled through the cedars or rushed down the wadis . |