Example sentences of "[adj] down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 2 | ‘ I had the kitchen stove which was nothing but steel : I had to do that down every morning till you could see yourself in it ; and whiten the hearth . |
| 3 | Can you scroll that down a bit ? |
| 4 | I 'll turn that down a bit . |
| 5 | I 've got ta get that down a bit . |
| 6 | Turn that down a bit Kelly Ann |
| 7 | Turn that down a bit |
| 8 | You 've taken that down a semitone to make it minor . |
| 9 | That 's what I said to Warren , I goes , this is going to Norway , this him fucking Norway ! like that down the microphone . |
| 10 | ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink ! |
| 11 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 12 | Lee Doherty set Alan Dornan free down the right and his cross from the by-line was headed home superbly by Garry Haylock . |
| 13 | Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 … |
| 14 | we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ? |
| 15 | I suddenly discovered I was very much down the bottom of the pile . " |
| 16 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 17 | And er Paula ran after him , all down an alleyway . |
| 18 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 19 | Yeah , and rubbing it all down the window with my cardi . |
| 20 | Oh , ah , that 's the problem see , yeah , she thinks that I charm people down here and er leave it all down the station . |
| 21 | You 've got a huge red stain all down the back of your shorts . |
| 22 | what 's gon na happen , you 're only gon na lose them all down the back |
| 23 | In winter you can ski cross country all down the valley , or ski downhill at Andermatt , Disentis and Flims . |
| 24 | opinions and principles like [ Wilde 's ] have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history , generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay . |
| 25 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 26 | He can see them , all down the table , leaning forwards over their plates , then back in their chairs , an irregular series of nodding heads like a shop window full of sipping chicken toys . |
| 27 | All down the table , white-gloved footmen were removing the soup plates , the men 's all empty , the ladies ' all — all but her own — ; three quarters full still . |
| 28 | All down the front of your coat |
| 29 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 30 | Lili was going to wear a crimson redingote of stiff taffeta with dull pewter buttons all down the front , a skull cap of crimson velvet atop her rusty curls , grey gun-metal stockings and gloves , and Egyptian crimson slippers . |