Example sentences of "[adj] down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All down the front of her ! |
| 32 | All down the front at Torquay . |
| 33 | She walked all down the room on the bare boards , looking at the paintings on the walls , breathing the smell of paint and turpentine laced with the richness of linseed oil . |
| 34 | So anyway , that Christmas Eve night confirmed my worst fears , it was like a kind of ‘ royal flush ’ for the infant Jimbo : all three kings — Pa , Santa and the King of Kings — all down the pan together … |
| 35 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 36 | Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy-nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted . |
| 37 | He was scoring off us all down the line . |
| 38 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ You and Corosini are wrong all down the line . |
| 40 | ‘ I see you 're one step ahead of us all down the line ! |
| 41 | All down the line drivers had their hands on the horn button . |
| 42 | He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve . |
| 43 | I had it all down the microphone . |
| 44 | All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch . |
| 45 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 46 | Though Brutus lost his alpha rank three years ago , and is now fourth down the ladder , he is still the uncontested leader when the group is on the move , and in territorial encounters with neighbouring groups . |
| 47 | She sat up slowly in the bed … and immediately amended her count to three glasses ; she had spilt most the contents of the fourth down the front of her muslin pyjamas and onto the lace coverlet . |
| 48 | A MAN brought a French TGV high speed train to a halt when his hand got stuck down a lavatory . |
| 49 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 50 | On the upward curve over the first down the lorry was forced to a crawl . |
| 51 | She wanted to do that with him , yes , actually that ; she thought about it on and on and waited all week for the moment that might or might not come on Sunday morning in church when , as her cousins went first down the aisle , Tristram glanced in her direction and their eyes met and she was able to send a thought message which said to him , yes , I have n't forgotten . |
| 52 | He rose and led them both down the stone steps , coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door . |