Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 2 | Its real blessing , of course , was that it kept down the numbers of mice and rats . |
| 3 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 4 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 5 | She nodded , spilling juice down her front so that it trickled down the pop star 's face . |
| 6 | So every night he put the snake through the air-vent , and it went down the bell-rope on to the bed . |
| 7 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 8 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 9 | And it cuts down the work then . |
| 10 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 11 | The desert boiled around his lorry while it rumbled down the slope . |
| 12 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 13 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 14 | According to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties before it shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in July , 1991 . |
| 15 | No on when it came down the bag missed the hanger instead of one bit going each side of the hanger so that the clothes were inside |
| 16 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 17 | This spirit can only travel in a straight line , so when it slides down the roof in the hope of gaining entry to a house , it will be swept up in the air again by the curving gable . |
| 18 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 19 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 20 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 21 | This was not what English food exporters wanted but , as it kept down the cost of provisioning the sugar plantations , it was supported by the sugar industry in England . |
| 22 | As it slid down the avenue the old crow , which had risen and was circling warily , dropped down again to its crust . |
| 23 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 24 | They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol . |
| 25 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 26 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |