Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Smith was driving the quad bike which ran down a hunt saboteur . |
| 2 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 3 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 4 | Karen Young 's glamorous looks would make her a role model for actress Helen Mirren who tracked down a serial killer in the hit series . |
| 5 | It was not clear if Mrs Shephard herself turned down the requests . |
| 6 | So extracting his fireman they went down the yard and got onto 4913 . |
| 7 | From the top of the kitchen-dresser he took down a jar . |
| 8 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 9 | The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable . |
| 10 | Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods . |
| 11 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 12 | That evening she turned down a prior supper engagement , pleading a headache . |
| 13 | As Polly took his place he started down the companionway . |
| 14 | For the second time that day I scrambled down the slope of the hill towards the sad little car . |
| 15 | Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they 'll knock it all over books . |
| 16 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 17 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 18 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 19 | After her ordeal on Sunday she flagged down a couple , who drove her to police . |
| 20 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 21 | Two months later in a game against Hearts he moved down the human anatomy , this time fouling the opposition fullback Steve Hamilton , who was helped off the pitch with stud marks on his stomach . |
| 22 | On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line . |
| 23 | Studying the map back at the motor cycle , he saw that it had once carried what was now that branch of the Makaa River which flowed down the valley below the track up to the President 's cabin . |
| 24 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 25 | The FMS was active in the protest movement which brought down the Lemus regime ( 1956–60 ) but , in common with many other groups , it became progressively disillusioned by the perpetual electoral frauds . |
| 26 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you remember what I told you , about the woman who called down the curse on your many-times great-grandmother . ’ |
| 28 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 29 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 30 | Taking an envelope from his pocket he wrote down the names of his guests . |