Example sentences of "down a [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
| 2 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 3 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 4 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 5 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 6 | Daniel slapped down a florin on the counter and caught the landlord 's eye . |
| 7 | Included are a water wheel , water float , his very own magnetic brave diver who dives from Bathtime Bear 's nose and slides down a shoot into the water . |
| 8 | The shopkeeper slammed the door behind them and quickly pulled down a blind with the word CLOSED on it . |
| 9 | It provides tools for breaking down a painting into the light , colour and space used by the painter . |
| 10 | The WRU yesterday turned down a request by the Merit Table clubs for a meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed national leagues . |
| 11 | Police broke down a door at the back of the house and ordered four people inside to leave with their hands on their heads . |
| 12 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 13 | 22 Something 's just gone down a hole in the skirting board . |
| 14 | Many busy working people have this quality of appeal , workpeople who will share an interest in what they are doing in an office or down a hole in the street . |
| 15 | On the left the slope broke off and fell down a cliff to the river . " |
| 16 | Try its lively , grassy , gooseberry-like '90 Sauvignon , Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France from Guy Saget ( £3.55 ) that would go down a treat with the Mushroom & Parmesan Risotto ( page 120 ) , or the Lemon & Mustard Mackerel ( page 122 ) . |
| 17 | When Gran was small , water was obtained at her Rollestone Street home by lifting a trap door in the floor and letting down a container into the stream below . |
| 18 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 19 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 20 | When he had explored the problem , I asked him if he could write down a number in the sequence and say which numbers were squared and added together to make it . |
| 21 | Said Davenport : ‘ All I want to do is hold down a place in the side . |
| 22 | Flynn had overcome this shortage by holding a night school for his gangers , where he taught the simple precepts of laying down a line on the ground from a survey map . |
| 23 | Both were involved in the opening goal , Johnrose heading down a corner from the right by Paul Cross and Saville striking a shot Kevan Smith sliced , as he attempted to clear , into the Darlington net . |
| 24 | In a spasm of irritation he pulled a cloak over his nightshirt , took down a pistol from the wall , and went downstairs into the chilly , stone-smelling darkness of the ground floor , looking for servants . |
| 25 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 26 | to level down a fault in the ocean floor . |
| 27 | There is also a chamber pot by an adjacent vent ; Bardul cheerily dumps his personal refuse down a vent into the kitchen below . |
| 28 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 29 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 30 | ‘ This , ’ he says slapping down a copy of THE FACE — bare-chested Marky Mark on its cover — with an air of triumphalism , ‘ is more homoerotic than our pictures ! ’ |