Example sentences of "[pron] down the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 2 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 3 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 4 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 5 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 6 | Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline . |
| 7 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 8 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 9 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 10 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 11 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock suggested that in that case someone down the chain of distribution who suffers economic loss ( i.e. because he has to pay out damages for breach of contract ) , might well be able to claim indemnity direct from the negligent manufacturer under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson . |
| 12 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 13 | Similarly , the winger you cheered so lustily on Saturday afternoon might well be working alongside you down the pit on Monday morning . |
| 14 | If you had joined at Paris , then you received a ticket back there ; if , however , you had joined at Marseilles , then you only got fifteen francs to get you down the line from Aubagne . |
| 15 | That 's why I put you down the end of the table so I would n't have to talk to you . |
| 16 | She walked behind him down the passage to the living room and watched , smiling , as her brother and her friend hugged each other . |
| 17 | The butler led him down the hall to a veneered door which he opened . |
| 18 | She could n't face speaking to him down the wires of a telephone again , not after yesterday , and , besides , he might have cancelled their arrangement and she had n't wanted that . |
| 19 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 20 | Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor . |
| 21 | Anna moved towards the bus steps and saw the driver looking behind him down the length of the bus , waiting . |
| 22 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
| 23 | Instead , he half lifted her down the rest of the stairs meaning to frogmarch her towards the door that led to the yard . |
| 24 | He followed her down the hall to the kitchen at the back of the house . |
| 25 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 26 | Momentum carried her down the hull into the deadspace between the executive transporter and the bay wall . |
| 27 | He read her mind and drew the woman away , leading her down the room to a comfortable chair . |
| 28 | If you have a lot of different dates to enter , either use a keystroke macro — something that I will cover in a future Step-by-Step ( but see ‘ Further Reading ’ ) or just enter the same date , say @DATEVALUE ( ’ 1-Jan-90 ’ ) in the first cell , copy it down the column for as many rows as you expect to need and then edit it ( using F2 ) to enter the real dates . |
| 29 | I miss my painting , and hope that by keeping still it will , like some small exotic animal , find its way back tome without my attempting to chase it down the byways of my exhausted creativity . |
| 30 | The most hair-raising operation at Honister was not digging the slate , but getting it down the fells to sheds where the material was riven and dressed for transportation by packhorse to ports and river barges . |