Example sentences of "[noun] down a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 2 | like a beach bum down a Surf City breaker . |
| 3 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 4 | Ruth Baird continues to teach a strong Edinburgh class but as a result of her unplanned and completely unsponsored double somersault down a highland waterfall , Muriel Jessop had to have an operation to deal with a torn cartilage and frayed ligaments in her knee . |
| 5 | Teesside magistrates heard they put a terrier with an electronic collar down a badger hole . |
| 6 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 7 | Half his hair then fell out when he raced an avalanche down a Chamonix couloir . |
| 8 | When saying ‘ no ’ feels like a trip down a dead-end road to treason , what else is there to say but ‘ yes ’ ? |
| 9 | I found my way down a communication trench . |
| 10 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 11 | A SOLDIER was critically injured yesterday after driving the wrong way down a fogbound motorway . |
| 12 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |