Example sentences of "[noun] down on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Turned upside down on the floor , it became my boat , my cart , a railway engine — it 's amazing what a child can make of a simple object in imagination . |
| 32 | She then took her father 's hat from his head , laid it upside down on the sand , rocked it backwards and forwards a few times , then upset it . |
| 33 | In the pubs the bar staff put the chairs upside down on the tables and shouted , ‘ Hurry up now , please , thank you . ’ |
| 34 | 9 Place a flowerpot upside down on the soil . |
| 35 | If a Burton man turned his empty beer-pot upside down on the table they knew there was going to be trouble . |
| 36 | Auguste 's cry came too late and a dish of ribboned cucumber , garnish for the lobster salads , landed upside down on the floor . |
| 37 | Dust your working surface with icing sugar or cornflour to prevent sticking and place the cake upside down on the surface . |
| 38 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 39 | No , the one in the poster she 's upside down on the car ! |
| 40 | The £917m it made in 1991 was just 3pc down on the previous year 's £945m . |
| 41 | Steve put his uneaten sandwich down on the table . |
| 42 | Tenderly , he put the smaller of his two tortoises down on the floor . |
| 43 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 44 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 45 | ‘ What are you looking so red in the face about , Harry ? ’ she said as she put the tray down on the coffee-table . |
| 46 | The young woman put the tray down on the table beside the bed and began gathering up the books and papers off the bedspread . |
| 47 | He set the tray down on the table and she identified the predictable ingredients : coffee in a bowl and a hunk of bread smeared with honey . |
| 48 | He glanced at her as she set the tray down on the table between them , then frowned , seeing how Karr was staring at her . |
| 49 | He put the tray down on the dressing table , arid the noise woke her . |
| 50 | Emmie put the tray down on the bed and shook her gently by the shoulder . |
| 51 | Place the dry foam ring flat side down on the cardboard and draw around its outline , following the outer and inner edges . |
| 52 | The strip is easy to apply , simply put it white side down on the squares to be corrected and rub gently but firmly with a ball point pen on the back of the strip . |
| 53 | Carefully lift the cake into a vertical position and secure flat side down on the cake drum with royal icing . |
| 54 | ‘ He was in that car down on the promenade . |
| 55 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 56 | It did n't smash , but its beams were cast up at the ceiling , throwing a gauzy light down on the room below . |
| 57 | In all the restaurants down on the coast they offer you very much the same salad , sometimes with a few olives , cucumber slices and cos lettuce all prettily arranged on a flat dish , a mixture not unlike the salade niçoise of Southern France . |
| 58 | At just 7 stone 7 , Sam Benham wo n't be rocking the Oxford boat , but her call up as cox has caused a few ripples and waves down on the Thames . |
| 59 | The myth of happy and contented animals down on the farm is now far from the truth . |
| 60 | This meant that the flutes were full width at the base of the sphere , but taper down on the top . |