Example sentences of "down [art] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the jobs were done , I switched off my torch and lay on my back listening to a gerbil skidding up and down the tent under the fly-sheet .
2 Dumps are increasingly required to have special liners to stop moisture from seeping in ; to collect and treat any liquid that does get in ; to monitor the waste that is added to a dump ; and to provide for shutting down the landfill at the end of its life and cleaning up any environmental damage that may come later .
3 Chatichai had turned down the leadership of the party to which he had formerly belonged , Chart Thai , on July 2 citing old age ( he was 70 ) and political reasons .
4 So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger .
5 The Judge raised his noose again , while the rats ran desperately up and down the rope of the alarm bell .
6 Endill threw down the rope with the chair attached to it .
7 I pulled off my boots , put the stick between my teeth and gently went down the rope into the water .
8 Instead of swallowing them , however , the eggs are taken into the vocal sac which is unusually large and extends right down the underside of the male 's body .
9 His boyish face split into a grin as he saw Yanto cycling down the edge of the wharf like a lunatic .
10 It is difficult to define this kind of skiing which ranges from skiing down the edge of the piste in the powder which the pistemachine does not reach , to touring from hut to hut far away from ski resorts .
11 First , remove the strings , then slacken the truss rod completely and sight down the edge of the neck from the headstock end .
12 Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe .
13 He saw a tall boy slide down the door of the shop and lie still on the pavement .
14 Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk .
15 A shot aimed down the centre of the fairway will probably drift into the water hazard so the key here is to aim away , down the left-hand side .
16 All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph .
17 You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common .
18 Rightly , the decoration is simple and understated ; a single thin black line separating the spruce from the maple binding , a well-proportioned herringbone soundhole rosette , a marquetry stripe down the centre of the back and small pearl dot-markers running up the fingerboard .
19 Both guitars have solid spruce tops , although the D-32's is closer-grained and prettier , and both are bound in faintly-flamed maple for a combination of looks and durability , with a decorative maple stripe down the centre of the back .
20 Continuing their tradition of affordable limited-edition guitars , Martin 's special 1993-model D-16 is the D-16H , an all-mahogany dreadnought with herringbone trim around the soundhole and down the centre of the back .
21 Tickling in the pit of the throat or down the centre of the chest to the stomach , causes coughing and may be with a congested head and wrenching pains in the right of the chest .
22 Running down the centre of the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism , there were rows of ornate street lights .
23 Your spine runs down the centre of the body , so the corresponding foot reflex will be found running down the inside edge of both feet .
24 She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads .
25 Fifth Avenue , sliced right down the centre of the island , felt liberatingly airy because of the gigantic proportions of every shape and space .
26 The Robemaker moved forward , prodding Nuadu onwards and , as they moved down the centre of the Workshop , the blazing furnaces roaring on each side of them , Nuadu felt his skin already shrivelling from the heat .
27 She saw sacks of meal and gleaming dates , boxes of over-ripe figs with the seeds oozing out , and she stepped carefully over a stream of something unthinkable that ran down the centre of the street .
28 The beds are cramped together along the walls and down the centre of the ward .
29 The operator will keep this beam aimed at the target while the missile , which has sensitive detectors at its back end , will steer down the centre of the beam .
30 An indeterminate mass of concrete and steel plunged down the centre of the stairwell , exploding like a bomb on the ground floor below .
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