Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 2 | Perhaps the pussy had fallen down the well again , they thought . |
| 3 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 4 | They had trampled down the rye ahead of their line to make a killing ground some sixty yards deep and , judging by the sound of their musketry , the Dutch-Belgian skirmishers were fighting with a brisk energy . |
| 5 | Whoever , or whatever was in the hold seemed unwilling or unable — they had battened down the hatch once more — to do battle in the open . |
| 6 | It had gone down a lot though . |
| 7 | ‘ At least you left Fernando on good terms , ’ he went on as he pulled up in front of the stone steps of the mansion that Ruth had fled down a century ago . |
| 8 | Heavy thunderstorms had poured down the day before , but today the sun shone brightly and the air was warm and clear . |