Example sentences of "[adv] down the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 2 | He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens . |
| 3 | Barney explained the intricacies of the pre-selector gearbox , after which Julie engaged first gear and , with a slight jolt , moved the big car slowly down the station drive . |
| 4 | The plane dropped a wing towards Brooklyn and the dark water of Jamaica Bay and nosed gently down the traffic pattern of Kennedy Airport . |
| 5 | He slid down from the pill-box and sat in the high grass , halfway down the canal bank . |
| 6 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 7 | E. A little further down the Don valley at Rotherham there are blast furnaces , changing iron ore into pig iron , and also more steel mills . |
| 8 | Consequently , pseudo-costs can be calculated early in the solution and used to estimate and at nodes further down the enumeration tree . |
| 9 | Further down the water course came Snugborough Mill . |
| 10 | Cram 's club-mate David Sharpe , looking for an 800 metres time inside 1 min 46.2 secs , moved further down the pecking order in the two-lap event after quick times by two of his rivals in Dijon : Wolverhampton 's Steve Heard , who was third in 1 mins 45.65 secs , and Haringey 's David Strang , fourth in 1:45.85 . |
| 11 | Contacts down in New Orleans at the Unix International annual members meeting , where reporters are barred , called in last week as we went to press to say that nothing substantive had happened yet that would move the industry further down the unity path . |
| 12 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 13 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 14 | The story is the same further down the sea front at Zetland Cafe . |
| 15 | The revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 have secured freedom of speech and may cause the UK to slip further down the league table . |
| 16 | If a comma or a semi-colon is encountered further down the print list , the format reverts to decimal . |
| 17 | I just hope BR in future will go a little bit further down the consumer road . ’ |
| 18 | ICI quickly installed better ventilation to control wet aerosols of ‘ live ’ material but there were subsequent incidents whenever the dust concentrations of the dead , dried and fragmented particles became unusually high further down the processing line . |
| 19 | To sustain life we eat , and the cost of that sustenance is death further down the food chain . |
| 20 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 21 | We followed a narrow path that snaked precariously down the escarpment side . |
| 22 | If the concentration increases to the right they turn in that direction until both antennae are sensing equal concentrations : and the rule will guide them straight down the odour trail . |
| 23 | Commit yourself straight down the fall line to pick up enough momentum to turn with minimum effort and use a vigorous down — and up ( unweighting ) — motion to turn . |
| 24 | I was inching carefully down the south bank of Dam Pool , covering every possible lie , when a good trout rose behind me . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't believe that Scotland has fallen far down the pecking order of top rugby nations . |
| 26 | I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could . |
| 27 | It is also possible at this early stage for workers to transfer to other firms without falling too far down the promotion ladder although such mobility is rarely between large firms . |
| 28 | The New Leicester Longhorn , which Bakewell had taken in hand , was half-way down the size table at 140cm in the bull and 125cm in the cow . |
| 29 | For one thing , teaching and examination styles have changed dramatically lower down the school system . |
| 30 | Though the great majority of students never became deeply involved in radical activity , those who did , together with pupils lower down the education ladder , made up over half the 7,000–8,000 political offenders of the 1860s and 1870s . |