Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] down the " in BNC.

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1 Lastly they went down the main staircase to the Director s office .
2 The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose .
3 Then they broke down the door , and poured into the great dining-room .
4 But Mr Riley argued that the parking on Hollyhurst Road was not a hazard to pedestrians who had to cross between parked cars instead they slowed down the speeding cars .
5 Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself .
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