Example sentences of "[adv] down the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | The hours slid slowly down the great entropy slope of the universe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But now let us climb slowly down the stratigraphical column to see what other widespread facies we can find . |
| 6 | Toy trucks moved between hangars ; a minute tractor drove slowly down the main runway . |
| 7 | A ship was moving slowly down the main channel , its engines throbbing in the stillness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I ran my hand gently down the bumpy back . |
| 12 | Flames licked over the straw , which crackled and flared , and the Wheel was clear of the ramp and bowling gently down the cleared path . |
| 13 | The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube . |
| 14 | He marched purposefully down the central aisle of the ward until he found the sister . |
| 15 | She remembered halfway down the rickety ladder stairs , but for would have been a final indignity . |
| 16 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dave is further down the sixth floor corridor , it 's almost directly under this room |
| 22 | Groups further down the social scale were in a much weaker position than the boyars or the Church to press their interests upon the Grand Prince . |
| 23 | State-sponsored housing began to reach further down the social scale than previously and house building under subsidy began to increase in the later 1920s . |
| 24 | I can tell you that the further down the social scale we went the brighter and sweeter and richer the orange squash , and the more I loved it . |
| 25 | John Byng in 1781 saw the revolution as reaching rather further down the social scale : " I wish with all my heart that half the turnpike roads of the kingdom were plough 'd up , which have imported London manners , and depopulated the country — I meet milkmaids on every road , with the dress and looks of Strand misses … " |
| 26 | Even in the merchant activities of the outports , however , a great number of people were taking shares in trading ventures , and from much further down the social scale than was the case with the East India Company , only 1.6 per cent of whose investors held less than £100 in 1764 . |
| 27 | In 1946 the premises at 94 Charing Cross road had been taken over by Tony Godwin , and under his ownership the place had become to radical culture what Collets , further down the same road , was to radical politics . |
| 28 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 29 | In North America consumer expectations moved quite rapidly down the social scale , drawn by high wages and less marked social rigidities . |
| 30 | He opened the door , peering out over Kirov 's shoulder ant glancing furtively down the empty stairway . |