Example sentences of "down from the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 2 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 3 | The collapse in confidence was prompted by proposals by the US Senate to limit credit card borrowing [ see also p. 38566 ] , a move which would have damaged the revival of retail markets ; markets calmed , however , following Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady " s dismissal of the idea , and the index ended the month 6 per cent down from the 3,075 level recorded at the end of October . |
| 4 | Down from the top floor bounced the offspring of Mr and Mrs Beavis , the girls in nightdresses , the boys in nightshirts . |
| 5 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 6 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 7 | For a moment , the centuries seemed to roll away , and she could visualise grim-faced men in chain-mail racing to answer some alarm , while women in wimpled head-dresses leaned down from the Gothic windows to bid them Godspeed . |