Example sentences of "[pers pn] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
2 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
3 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
9 | See you down the bottom Shel ! |
10 | See you down the bottom Shel ! |
11 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
12 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
13 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
14 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
15 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
16 | He took possession of her hand with almost too much confidence , drawing her with him down the slippery slope of wet grass towards the waterside . |
17 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
18 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
19 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
20 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
21 | and you go with her down the unlit hall |
22 | The Palmers have been promised a back door ramp to get Mrs Palmer into the garden in case of fire , but no ramp to get her down the 5 garden steps into the street . |
23 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
24 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
25 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
26 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
27 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
28 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |
29 | Two queers heel and toe it down the High , |
30 | gut Mr Lu got back into it down the last . |