Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 2 | She cut short the stumbling thanks and put down the phone . |
| 3 | They lifted her gently onto their shoulders and moved down the chapel . |
| 4 | The head of the family rested his knife and fork on their heels and looked down the table . |
| 5 | He stepped over Gabriel 's knees and clambered down the ladder , mumbling . |
| 6 | Seb hunched his hands into his pockets and scowled down the lawn . |
| 7 | After selecting a field he carried out his emergency drills and shut down the engine . |
| 8 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 9 | Although he captured some knights and burned down the town , he was unable to take the castle . |
| 10 | He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate . |
| 11 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 12 | She took off her glasses and turned down the collar . |
| 13 | And she slipped like a ghost into the shadows and ran down the gallery . |
| 14 | DoE and the Department of Trade and Industry have asked the British Standards Institution to revise any analytical standards that lay down the use of either of these compounds . |
| 15 | He pulled back the blankets , peeled back the cotton and rubber sheets and struggled down the ladder with them in his arms . |
| 16 | He moved back to the chest of drawers and took down the photograph of Tatyana Nowak and her husband on Westminster Bridge . |
| 17 | Mallachy spun the chambers and squinted down the barrel at the cottage lights . |
| 18 | Polly finished drying the dishes and wiped down the cooker and the work surfaces , vaguely aware of the engine 's deep rumble and the sensation of movement . |
| 19 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 20 | Terry sat looking anxious while Ellie carefully unpicked , altered , moved all the tiny buttons that ran down the back , rearranged the small bustle , put little tucks into the bustline to make it fit more snugly . |
| 21 | They rode in single file , for the ground became broken as they climbed higher and the hoofs of their mounts dislodged loose stones that clattered down the hillside . |