Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step . |
| 2 | Dundee defender , Steve Pittman , latched on to a defensive error by John Inglis to race down the left flank . |
| 3 | Dennis ran down the concrete slope and leapt in as the craft relaunched itself with a loud splash , taking on quite a lot of water . |
| 4 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 5 | At that moment Jack Carter and Dougal Munro came down the main staircase . |
| 6 | With a gasp of despair Ruth slammed down the half-empty glass of champagne and covered her face with her hands . |
| 7 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |
| 8 | Maggie put down the rolling pin . |
| 9 | But Jack had only one thought as he and Tina ran down the broken tarmac of the estate road , finally arriving breathless at the front door of the Shepherd 's house . |
| 10 | But only Motherwell have shown interest and Hauser turned down the Premier League side after failing to agree personal terms . |
| 11 | On twenty minutes Dyer stormed down the left wing and sent in a perfect cross . |
| 12 | Cameron shot down the little casement of the window and roared out in his own language , with the whole strength of his voice , ‘ We are here , friends ! |
| 13 | With Boro plummeting down the Premier League table , Lawrence warned : ‘ One or two will have to go , and new players will have to come in . ’ |
| 14 | Oliver peered down the greasy ladder into the tiny engine room . |
| 15 | Fran swallowed down the cold chill of fear in the pit of her stomach , the bile of suspicion . |
| 16 | With the RAF closing down the adjacent airfield and it going on the market next year , YAM ‘ hope to expand and seek to continue to expand ’ , remarked Ian . |
| 17 | With time running out , another Bob Daynes surge down the right wing earned a corner for 'Mill , and it was Daynes himself who crossed the ball to pick out brother Peter who was unmarked in the penalty area to score with a thumping header into the roof of the net . |
| 18 | Skipper Shane Cooper and full-back Lyon combined down the left flank to put Ropati over for a second-minute try . |
| 19 | Mr Mallory flipped down the top half of his newspaper : |
| 20 | Gabriel set down the rusty metal bird , dismissing the thing with a jab of his foot . |
| 21 | A rapid counter-offensive culminated in Hateley bursting down the left flank . |
| 22 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 23 | Fitt brought down the Labour Government because Labour had increased Northern Ireland 's representation at Westminster from 12 to 17 seats . |
| 24 | Mungo turned down the right flank of the sleeping monster , towards the hole in its side . |
| 25 | Labour spokesmen made generous use of statistics to castigate the government for refusing to spend more money on science , and for letting Britain slip down the international league table on R&D spending . |
| 26 | It seems , although the statement of claim does not set out the matter in any systematic way , that C.M.C. drew down the full loan of £420,000 and subsequently defaulted in its payments to B.M.T. It does not appear precisely how the £420,000 was expended by C.M.C. After obtaining the possession order in respect of the bakery , B.M.T. sold it for about £183,000 . |
| 27 | John Hutt fled down the small village main street , narrowly missing two elderly ladies . |
| 28 | Cos erm Greg came down the other night . |
| 29 | When Charles cut down the sacred tree Irminsul , he was destroying the one central element of Saxony that all tribes seemed to look to and respect . |
| 30 | Forster smashed down the locking lever , and pulled for all his worth . |