Example sentences of "[pron] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 2 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 3 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 4 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 5 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 6 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 7 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 8 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 9 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 10 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 11 | He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’ |
| 12 | I thought I would go and take one of the head ones and journey along down to that place and so , you know , is there any chance you slipping me down a good four long ones and if he says no , think again ? |
| 13 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 14 | The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves , stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well . |
| 15 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 16 | You would n't want to meet her coming towards you down a dark alley . |
| 17 | How aware are you that the powers that be could be steering you down a particular course ? |
| 18 | On the A four two three at Hopcroft 's Holt , there are temporary traffic lights for resurfacing work and er that might slow you down a little bit . |
| 19 | See you down the bottom Shel ! |
| 20 | See you down the bottom Shel ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Okay and if you bring that one down a little bit then it 'll collide with these . |
| 23 | Weirder — and better — still , watching NICK CAVE while standing 18 inches away from the stage is akin to catching the alarmingly gaunt one down the blinking Bull & Gate . |
| 24 | Her sister Gabrielle Garsin , who had lived with Eugenia and the family when Dedo was a child , had committed suicide that year by throwing herself down a steep flight of stairs . |
| 25 | She eased herself down a few rungs , praying it would n't collapse under her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |
| 28 | Wycliffe followed him down a carpeted passage to a door at the end , a small room overlooking a regimented back garden with a substantial Swiss-type chalet in the middle of the lawn . |
| 29 | Daniel struggled but was no match for the two louts who , having kicked and beaten him , pushed him down a grassy bank towards the canal . |
| 30 | ‘ If I wanted to bring him down a teeny-weeny heat-seeking missile would do the job very effectively . |