Example sentences of "[vb past] down [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last November the executive committee turned down North Down 's application . |
| 2 | John Coffin walked down Church Row on his way home , cutting through Queen Charlotte 's Alley , on purpose to have a look at the house where the Flemings lived . |
| 3 | And sometimes I walked down lace market for me dinner and m And er we used to have to go on er on green , for three penn'orth a breast of mutton , to make stew and hap'orth of mixed potherbs , and do together and it were lovely . |
| 4 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 5 | And the reindeer fair flew down Artisan View |
| 6 | When negotiations between employers and unions finally broke down strike action was taken with different groups of workers coming out in different parts of the country . |
| 7 | We nailed down hand model Sara Francis and discovered some well-kept secrets : |
| 8 | One of the leaders at the site , Dan Flynn , urged Down District Council to provide a permanent site which could be used by travellers visiting the area . |
| 9 | Yesterday traders tracked down show chairman Alistair McCloud to his hotel room in Aylesbury , but he refused to answer the door . |
| 10 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 11 | ‘ Get down on deck and have the machine guns uncovered and lay down support fire . ’ |
| 12 | Tony made a brief call to the harbour authorities , we turned into the north wind and I selected carb air to cold while he raised the water rudders and pumped down take-off flap . |
| 13 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |