Example sentences of "[verb] down a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Si sit down a minute love |
| 2 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 3 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's redlining it at 6,000 , ’ he said , referring to the straining Tachometer , while firing down a bus lane in first gear at about forty . |
| 5 | Grégoire 's ability to take a clock to pieces and put it together again , to strip down a car engine , to harness a horse and ride it well , to know and to cherish the names and characteristics of plants and of animals — all these abilities meant nothing to Hugo at all . |
| 6 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 7 | She had no time to spare for embarrassment , due to shoes totally unsuitable for climbing down a cliff path . |
| 8 | A man driving down a country road is stopped , and a spike is driven into his head . |
| 9 | In A Landscape with Simple Figures , the teacher is advised first to demonstrate the drawing with charcoal on a large sheet of white paper ; the landscape , illustrating figures walking down a country road , is shown in the manual for her to copy . |
| 10 | With memories of sailing planing dinghies still fresh in his mind , he wanted a boat that would surf down a tradewind roller with the tiller humming easily in his hand . |
| 11 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 12 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 13 | She said oh I 've got to write down a credit limit . |
| 14 | However , it takes longer for irregularly shaped particles to pass down a sieve column than grains which are smooth surfaced or equant ( Kennedy , Meloy & durney , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Then we got Brian back — ’ Brian ! — ‘ because I could n't stand your father worrying that he 'd fall down a rock face . ’ |
| 16 | He banged her head backwards , knocking down a domino row of Christmas cards . |
| 17 | Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy . |
| 18 | Is there nothing that the average man wandering down a country lane can do about the effects of autumn ? |
| 19 | But not even Barnes could break down a Springbok side able to absorb the most intense pressure and punish every error . |
| 20 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 21 | A pride of lions hunting down a prey animal , such as a zebra , is one of nature 's more awesome spectacles . |
| 22 | Movement in these circumstances is over short distances and occurs down a pressure gradient . |
| 23 | ( First Edition ) WARRINGTON have turned down a transfer request from Neil Harmon , their 21-year-old prop forward . |
| 24 | Bristol City winger Junior Bent has turned down a loan move to Plymouth . |
| 25 | Ray Wilkins agreed to come to Tyneside last week but subsequently turned down a playercoach job because his wife did n't want to leave London . |
| 26 | Rangers got no joy , either , from a referee who had turned down a first-half penalty claim for hand ball and was similarly unmoved when Huistra fell after making contact with Dykstra . |
| 27 | cut down a plastic bucket and fixed that , it was great she had a bucket round her , round her |
| 28 | Walk down a wartime street and see the latest fashions , from hats to lingerie , or view the W.V.S. clothing exchange shop . |
| 29 | Walk down a wartime street and see the latest fashions , from hats to lingerie , or view the W.V.S. clothing exchange shop . |
| 30 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |