Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 2 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 3 | It was darker in the deep groove of the track that led down the Ridgery . |
| 4 | She convulsed , collapsing to the floor with the pain that danced down the paths of her nervous system . |
| 5 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 6 | The girls said it was the room with the round window that faced down the town and that Eve could sit at the window and watch everyone and where they went and who they were with . |
| 7 | They rode in single file , for the ground became broken as they climbed higher and the hoofs of their mounts dislodged loose stones that clattered down the hillside . |
| 8 | She followed the old route , through the walled garden at The Tamarisks to the path that curled down the cliffs to the five-acre plateau on which the Villa stood at the centre of an arboretum . |
| 9 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 10 | And when her tears mixed with the salty tears that fell down the great beast 's cheek , the spell was released , and he stood before her , a golden-haired young man in hunting-costume . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a storm like that , was n't it , that sent down the Bison ? ’ |
| 12 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 13 | The cost of the ‘ soap that went down the plughole ’ as the Daily Star described it , was variously estimated at between £10 million and £20 million . |
| 14 | And then when the war came he er he was one of the first Bevan boys that , one of the boys that went down the mines to relieve the miners . |
| 15 | The broken fringes of grass were lifted off and stacked well out of the way , the spades began to clear the ground downwards from the arc of russet brickwork , warily because of sinister little trickles of loose earth that drifted down the slope at every movement . |
| 16 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 17 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 18 | who , who was it that brought down the human race ? |
| 19 | DoE and the Department of Trade and Industry have asked the British Standards Institution to revise any analytical standards that lay down the use of either of these compounds . |
| 20 | Current rating legislation is contained in three Acts of Parliament ( the Local Government Finance Act 1988 , the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and the Non-domestic Rating Act 1992 ) and about 100 items of associated secondary regulations that lay down the processes and procedures governing the system . |
| 21 | Dr Kevin O'Kane worked in Baidoa for the Irish agency , Goal ; his wife , a doctor with Médecins sans Frontières , was evacuated last week because of death threats that shut down the MSF programme . |
| 22 | The fire , apparently caused by a short circuit , triggered an automatic safety system that shut down the plant . |
| 23 | The harbour wall was made of solid concrete in fact the only thing that was n't concrete was the wood that ran down the harbour wall . |
| 24 | She saw sacks of meal and gleaming dates , boxes of over-ripe figs with the seeds oozing out , and she stepped carefully over a stream of something unthinkable that ran down the centre of the street . |
| 25 | At last she straightened up , rubbing at the soreness in her back , aware of her hot , dishevelled appearance , of the small rivulets of sweat that ran down the valley between her breasts . |
| 26 | Terry sat looking anxious while Ellie carefully unpicked , altered , moved all the tiny buttons that ran down the back , rearranged the small bustle , put little tucks into the bustline to make it fit more snugly . |
| 27 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 28 | Taking its way along the high sad wall confining the stableyard , it crossed , by a minute stone-walled bridge ( gateposts in exact relation to its height and arch were built into the walls tight as ingrowing toe-nails ) , the same stream that hurried down the garden hill . |
| 29 | The total vertical heat transport is the sum of that transported by the motion and that conducted down the temperature gradient ( cf. also Section 21.7 ) . |
| 30 | But later in the afternoon the light clothing he was wearing left him ill-prepared for the chilling mist and rain that slid down the mountainsides , poignantly recorded on the damp film found in his camera . |