Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Several nearby windows came up and a number of guns flew down into the street . |
2 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
3 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
4 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
5 | An apparently apocryphal account is of two Prussian medical officers , Fritsch and Hitzig , who In 1870 took advantage of the opportunity offered by the Franco-Prussian War to study the exposed brains of soldiers struck down on the battlefield . " |
6 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |
7 | A pair of swans drifted down towards the town centre . |