Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] down [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With luck ‘ Mummy ’ might disbelieve the dire tale , especially if the bruise went down a little before she saw it . |
| 2 | Overnight , the fighting calmed down a little but it picked up again the next morning and raged on throughout the day . |
| 3 | While watching the slides subjects wrote down the most distinctive feature of each slide . |
| 4 | More importantly , once we start nibbling naughty things our willpower slides down a very slippery slope . |
| 5 | The orderly sergeant missed his footing coming down the rather steep gangway into the magazine , and cursed " Oh bother " or some similar word you hear often in the Sergeants Mess . |
| 6 | The white-hot stream flowed down a crudely fashioned open conduit , passing only a couple of feet from Robyn 's toecaps . |
| 7 | Drummer Barrett Martin lays down a dauntingly hard-but-fair rhythm manifesto , while Gary Lee Conner is the band 's only obvious showman , a tangle of sweat , hair and punkoid Townshend windmill routines who , even when horizontal , somehow managed to keep his act on the rails for such intricate anthemic lullabies as ‘ Bed Of Roses ’ or ‘ Shadows ’ , the opening nugget from the new ST album . |
| 8 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 9 | The early fakers of marble statuary used a variety of treatments to tone down the too obvious freshly carved surfaces , ranging from cold tea to the more sophisticated repeated acid bath treatments used by more recent fakers . |
| 10 | Last year the government turned down a more ambitious National Coal Board proposal for three mines in and around the vale . |
| 11 | ( Melastomataceae ) , while in the Malay Peninsula , raindrops run down the longitudinally dehisced capsules of Didymocarpus spp . |
| 12 | That was lucky for the Manchester side as the Danish official turned down no less than four strident claims for penalties . |
| 13 | Petion moved down the sparsely decorated hall to keep an eye out for anyone approaching . |
| 14 | The Volvo estate accelerated down the straight through the forest towards Port Ann . |
| 15 | Practical Running tracked down a very useful little booklet which we hope will help Dave , and others , to sort out such disputes in future . |