Example sentences of "it [vb past] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 2 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 3 | A helicopter was sent for him and shortly afterwards it clattered down on the tarmac , Bakhtiar , a thin , nervous but very elegant man who looked like a French aristocrat , with a trim moustache and superbly cut clothes , entered the pavilion and bowed before the king . |
| 4 | It would oscillate through the earth and back , until eventually it settled down at the center . |
| 5 | Fernando had said and she had said , and really it boiled down to the misuse of the three most precious words in the universal language — I love you ! |
| 6 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 7 | " And how often did you get good roast beef like this down at Sir Gregory 's , Miss Jennifer ? " he asked , helping himself to a generous dollop of honey and making patterns with it as it streamed down onto the slab of red meat on his plate . |
| 8 | It went down behind the wave , but then it came up again . |
| 9 | It blew down in the gale ! |
| 10 | So that 's the region where calcium carbonate is no longer super-saturated and so that skeletal material , as it floated down through the water column , would begin to dissolve . |
| 11 | It sloped down like the side of Sgurr Dearg , he thought to himself , and grinned . |
| 12 | A bird slid past , wings soughing as it planed down towards the water below , darkening now with the beginnings of a breeze . |
| 13 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |