Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] down [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car .
2 Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent .
3 Higher taxes and minority earnings in Germany drove earnings per share down a sharper 38 p.c. to 36p .
4 Only a handful of reporters now cover the inquiry , and their stories slip day by day down the news schedules , overtaken by fresh nightmares and by disasters which are simpler , easier to comprehend .
5 There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy .
  Next page