Example sentences of "[adj] down the [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 | That 's what I said to Warren , I goes , this is going to Norway , this him fucking Norway ! like that down the microphone . |
| 3 | ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink ! |
| 4 | Lee Doherty set Alan Dornan free down the right and his cross from the by-line was headed home superbly by Garry Haylock . |
| 5 | Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 … |
| 6 | we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ? |
| 7 | I suddenly discovered I was very much down the bottom of the pile . " |
| 8 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 9 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 10 | Yeah , and rubbing it all down the window with my cardi . |
| 11 | Oh , ah , that 's the problem see , yeah , she thinks that I charm people down here and er leave it all down the station . |
| 12 | You 've got a huge red stain all down the back of your shorts . |
| 13 | what 's gon na happen , you 're only gon na lose them all down the back |
| 14 | In winter you can ski cross country all down the valley , or ski downhill at Andermatt , Disentis and Flims . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All down the front of your coat |
| 20 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All down the front of her ! |
| 23 | All down the front at Torquay . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was scoring off us all down the line . |
| 29 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You and Corosini are wrong all down the line . |