Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 2 | He flung himself down the marble stairs , and out through the front doors of the school . |
| 3 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 4 | He had a sudden vision of families in endless reproduction — Willmots and Stannards and the rest replicating themselves down the years , perfecting their most infamous capacities . |
| 5 | The corporal and the airmen first put on some trousers and literally threw themselves down the brae to meet the girls . |
| 6 | Dived , pulling myself down the wire . |
| 7 | He gave a brief nod , and swung himself down the companionway . |
| 8 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 9 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 10 | Dragging myself down the unlit hallway floor like a slug , I coiled myself back , back to the back room , and ate and waited . |
| 11 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 12 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |