Example sentences of "[verb] down [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) .
2 As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’
3 So from four we count five backwards count minus five just means count down the opposite way , so we go one , two , three , four , five , so it should be minus one .
4 Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way .
5 The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’
6 ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’
7 Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way .
8 My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking .
9 Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way .
10 But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work .
11 She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’
12 Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ?
13 It were flowing down the both ways down .
14 Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us .
15 As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky .
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