Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our first encounter with ‘ The way through the Fish ’ , a modern classic of the Marmalada South Face in the Italian Dolomites had ended with us well beaten and rather incomprehendingly abseiling down during a perfect alpine evening . |
| 2 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
| 3 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 4 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 5 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 6 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
| 7 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 8 | Piloted by Hoof Proudfoot , the Lightning flew with the undercarriage locked down for the 35 minute flight back to base . |
| 9 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 10 | Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’ |
| 11 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 12 | Could well go down as a second own goal of the match . |
| 13 | until then the French and Italian and other delegations had us down as a quiet reserved nation |
| 14 | James settled down as a wealthy young laird and later married a daughter of the Swedish Ambassador . |
| 15 | As they approach London they let down through the shining white floor of cloud into a dull grey light . |
| 16 | Round and round went the rich , creamy milk , as the cool spring water flowed past , down through the three sloping troughs and away out of the yard . |
| 17 | Down through the old meat-market streets , into the tunnel with its rows of lights like neon stitching and its shiny cream tiles , up into Venus , then round the western edge of the harbour and back over the bridge to C Street . |
| 18 | Their first set move broke down through an elementary forward pass , and throughout the first half they were plagued by basic errors . |
| 19 | Regional nerves have been strained by a plan to cut off water from Syria and Iraq for a month , and by the Syrian shooting down of a Turkish civilian plane in October . |
| 20 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 21 | The Lacona is set in a tranquil garden which rolls down towards a sheltered sandy beach just a few minutes walk away . |
| 22 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 23 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 24 | If that is excluded , then we come back down towards the twenty five hectares . |
| 25 | Yeah , they , they 've got sponsorship down beneath the two hundred pounds . |
| 26 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 27 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 28 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 29 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 30 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |