Example sentences of "[adv] down [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right down the other end of the pipe , please , ’ said Gurder . |
| 2 | From the board powers are frequently delegated to committees of directors or to individual board members , and thence down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 3 | They drove slowly down a narrow asphalt drive between the southern wall of the church and the railing bordering the canal , but still there was no sign of life . |
| 4 | The hours slid slowly down the great entropy slope of the universe . |
| 5 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 6 | He drove slowly down the wide Third Avenue . |
| 7 | But now let us climb slowly down the stratigraphical column to see what other widespread facies we can find . |
| 8 | Toy trucks moved between hangars ; a minute tractor drove slowly down the main runway . |
| 9 | A ship was moving slowly down the main channel , its engines throbbing in the stillness . |
| 10 | He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform and remembered something else from their past : Mother Bernie and her holes in the universe , the holes that let the Evil in . |
| 11 | Over in Ireland , BOB DYLAN got his collar felt last week when a hotel security guard accosted him as he crept stealthily down a little-used fire escape . |
| 12 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
| 13 | In practice , it is possible to send a single digitally encoded TV channel only down an optical fibre . |
| 14 | It is the same all down the Welsh border , from Cheshire down to the Severn , and thence across the Severn to the three south-western counties of Somerset , Devon and Cornwall . |
| 15 | I ran my hand gently down the bumpy back . |
| 16 | Flames licked over the straw , which crackled and flared , and the Wheel was clear of the ramp and bowling gently down the cleared path . |
| 17 | The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube . |
| 18 | He marched purposefully down the central aisle of the ward until he found the sister . |
| 19 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 20 | She remembered halfway down the rickety ladder stairs , but for would have been a final indignity . |
| 21 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 22 | Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch . |
| 23 | Whereas if we go on the back of something else or somebody else as as you were saying on on the back of a wedding er brochure or something like that , in other words , go down down a specialized avenue rather than a general one , you might achieve something better . |
| 24 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 25 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 26 | The fact that the materials which emerged , for all their faults , were usable in schools reflects the hard work and experience of the writers , but as many of the participants themselves readily admitted the original ‘ Entebbe ’ books needed considerable modification — and the further down the primary age range one travelled the more they needed it . |
| 27 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 28 | F. Further down the main valleys the rivers have become larger ( 3rd and 4th Order ) . |
| 29 | Each new administration in Washington appoints not only the heads of its departments , or ministries , but also a lot of people further down the departmental ladder . |
| 30 | Dave is further down the sixth floor corridor , it 's almost directly under this room |