Example sentences of "run down [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes during the night someone from Wouldham would run down to the opposite bank and call for the Doctor . |
| 2 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 3 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 4 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 5 | Michele lifted out Luce 's bag , passed her the crutch , and , having handed over the car keys , led her through the crush of people and vehicles to the steps that ran down to the Grand Canal . |
| 6 | Philip and Lee ran down to the Old Rectory . |