Example sentences of "his [noun sg] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 2 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 3 | With the Sky Blues set to overtake the Canaries if they win at Highfield Road , Gould took his team down to the local for pint of two of Guinness ! |
| 4 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 5 | John ran his float down to the inside stantion of the old railway bridge . |
| 6 | ‘ The ole cow saw me clump 'im frew the office winder an' she phoned fer the police , ’ he said as he put his mug down on the wooden table . |
| 7 | Putting his glass down on the low coffee-table , Ashley sat quietly in a corner of the sofa . |
| 8 | He put his glass down on the circular table , and inspected the rolled up sun-shade that protruded from the centre of the table like an unopened flower . |
| 9 | Lepine makes his way down to the ground-floor cafeteria where the nursing student Barbara Maria Kleuznick is standing by the cash and service area , and he kills her with two shots . |
| 10 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 11 | Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun . |