Example sentences of "[verb] down one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 2 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 3 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 4 | This is exactly what this staircase is , and to get from one room to another you had to go down one staircase and up another . |
| 5 | On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady … |
| 6 | He 's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body . |
| 7 | ‘ It will be a long process because he is slightly paralysed down one side , ’ admitted Joan . |
| 8 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 9 | It 's a Fool 's Paradise to think that a ruck will be won , the ball moved down one channel , another ruck won , over to another channel and then finally over the try-line . |
| 10 | You see coal used to come down one incline and the and and it used to knock the empties off , two empties off , you see ? |
| 11 | New operands are always inserted at position one , and all operands already in the stack are moved down one position ( or " pushed " ) ; only the most recently added operand could be removed ( from position one ) and the remaining operands are moved back ( or " popped " ) . |
| 12 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 13 | Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr |
| 14 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 15 | Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I . |
| 16 | A federal court has ordered that this must be done by June 1st ; voters have already turned down one plan . |
| 17 | No talk of the tittle tattle of erm the citizens charter that gets watered down one day and becomes something else the other day and you might get a free train ticket out of it some time . |
| 18 | Shorts told the press : ‘ It is notable , even if regrettable , that the Argentine forces are believed to have shot down one Harrier GR3 and two helicopters with Blowpipe . ’ |
| 19 | Ellis managed to track down one contemporary who described him as , quote , a horrible little shit who thought he was Napoleon , unquote . |
| 20 | He hands it over when I run down one flight of stairs and straight up another to arrive obediently at his side . |
| 21 | From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 22 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 23 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |
| 24 | It 's getting light as we scramble down one side of a blown bridge across a river , then scramble up the other side , slipping down , and pulling each other up again until we are all assembled on a grassy bank . |
| 25 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 26 | As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot . |
| 27 | The document will move down one line and insert BCC at the top . |
| 28 | Gray cut down one man with his sword . |
| 29 | The 401st moved slightly to the right to avoid it , but ran into an even heavier barrage that knocked down one B–17 from the 612th in the Group . |
| 30 | He glanced down one passage to no avail , then tried the next , just soon enough to catch the porter emerging from the third door along . |