Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink ! |
| 2 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 3 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 4 | Lili was going to wear a crimson redingote of stiff taffeta with dull pewter buttons all down the front , a skull cap of crimson velvet atop her rusty curls , grey gun-metal stockings and gloves , and Egyptian crimson slippers . |
| 5 | He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve . |
| 6 | You 've got a huge red stain all down the back of your shorts . |
| 7 | Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 … |
| 8 | She walked all down the room on the bare boards , looking at the paintings on the walls , breathing the smell of paint and turpentine laced with the richness of linseed oil . |
| 9 | All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch . |
| 10 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 11 | She wanted to do that with him , yes , actually that ; she thought about it on and on and waited all week for the moment that might or might not come on Sunday morning in church when , as her cousins went first down the aisle , Tristram glanced in her direction and their eyes met and she was able to send a thought message which said to him , yes , I have n't forgotten . |