Example sentences of "down the [noun] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when she judged the moment right , Laura shut down the damper in the smokestack , sealed the air-vents , and the whole kiln began to throb and pant black smoke . |
| 2 | The seminar was one of several held up and down the country in the run up to the introduction of Environmental Protection Act legislation on Wednesday . |
| 3 | Sister Robinson put down the phone in the office as Juliet and the junior nurse , Frankie Elmore , arrived to start their late shifts . |
| 4 | Not allowing himself to glance down the passage in the direction of Madeleine 's bedroom , Harry descended the big staircase and went out of the house . |
| 5 | The silver ball sped up the slight incline lighting up the Bakelite mushrooms as it struck them , ricocheting back and forwards , up and down , before vanishing down the hole in the corner . |
| 6 | Moreover , in dealing with a phenomenon as complex as war — which produces an infinite variety of situations and is conducted by means whose technical features alter almost from year to year — there are inherent difficulties in laying down the law in the form of treaties . |
| 7 | The western sun would scorch and dazzle and we would pull down the blinds in the compartment . |
| 8 | Next day , a white-faced Carolyn with horrible silent determination dusted and vacuumed the landings , stairs and hallway , washed down the woodwork in the kitchen , and cleaned out the fridge and food cupboards . |
| 9 | As tomatoes ripen , an enzyme is produced which causes softening by breaking down the pectin in the cell walls . |
| 10 | I stood up and began to walk impatiently up and down the cell in the darkness . |
| 11 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 12 | I do n't want 'em mowing down the tents in the dark . ’ |
| 13 | did n't you Christopher , went down the slide in the swimming pool ? |
| 14 | When the last tram ran through Glasgow in September 1962 , and two days later , the Burgh of Clydebank ran its last tram , it was like the loss of some favourite place and time a vision of childhood vanishing down the sink in the wash-house . |
| 15 | ( e.g. Follow three consecutive actions such as ‘ Write down the place in the classroom where you think your plant will grow best , find out what the others on your table think and try to agree on which is likely to be the best place ’ . ) |
| 16 | This spirit can only travel in a straight line , so when it slides down the roof in the hope of gaining entry to a house , it will be swept up in the air again by the curving gable . |
| 17 | Write down the numbers in the order . |
| 18 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ said Harry , already in his mind scrambling down the rocks in the dark to Severnside . |
| 20 | Almost every member of staff , including people who normally spend all day in the office , was involved in cutting raw squid and fish into slivers for the babies and at feeding time , every 4 hours day and night , each little bill had to be opened and the food introduced down the throat in the way the mother bird would have fed the chick . |