Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 3 | A moaning wind frisks down the coast , kicking up a roaming layer of top-sand in its wake . |
| 4 | Maxham 's pale-blue eyes glanced down the hall to the kitchen . |
| 5 | Despite Adam 's devious attempts to play down the collaboration behind this superb work ( several resplendently bound copies are on display ) , credit is now given to James 's role as project manager , co-ordinating teams of engravers in Venice , Rome and London over the seven years before publication in 1764 . |
| 6 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 7 | Lepage performs some of the text from this letter , and with dizzying theatrical vertigo tumbles down the skyscraper blocks projected onto the screen behind him . |
| 8 | The boys ' mother , Tracey Gardiner , 29 , and her five-month-old son , escaped unharmed after a neighbour and a passing mini-cab driver broke down the door and woke them up . |
| 9 | The vibration takes the form of an acoustic wave travelling down the rod . |
| 10 | Old voices echo down the hall , |
| 11 | The Old Testament lays down the fundamentals of a Christian social ethic in three major ways . |
| 12 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 13 | Yellow and brown linoleum stretched down the hall to the kitchen . |
| 14 | After her act another blonde in black , thigh length leather boots , studded belt , bra and pants strutted onto the stage , removed her top and stepped up to the front row , where the Koreans stuffed dollar notes down the front of her knickers . |
| 15 | The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit , a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain . |
| 16 | The warning follows a string of incidents including one in which a five years old child burned down the family home , killing his sister , after watching cartoon characters playing with fire . |
| 17 | Settlement on time , with the right monies , is another area in which licensed dealers let down the clients , but retain the advantage of having the use of the clients ' money . |
| 18 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 19 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 20 | The traffic was light : the blue twinkle of a Mitchum magnet train on the Phobos-Byzantium run ; a little old Fargo slipping down the gradient from Longevity or Silverside , fresh vegetables for the Martians . |
| 21 | •Sandy Lyle turned down the invitation to play in the 1989 Ryder Cup . |
| 22 | Madness had a smell , as Kathleen Lavender had watched the very old body move down the garden path . |
| 23 | After determined application of the economic weapon by the Eisenhower Administration had forced a cease-fire as British troops advanced down the Suez Canal on 6 November 1956 , an exhausted Eden flew to Jamaica to recuperate on 21 November . |
| 24 | That 's right , the continual it 's this continual stuff running down the back that goes for it . |
| 25 | Many will see this paper as a fundamental attack on the NHS , a means by which a free service slides down the slippery slope of privatisation . |
| 26 | It is common for old people to play down the extent of the abuse and it is not easy to gauge how far their reluctance to discuss alternative care is due to fear of the unknown rather than acceptance of the situation . |
| 27 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't do what ? ’ the old voice crackled down the telephone . |
| 29 | Both explored the breakup of wartime solidarity , the liberation of former restraints on individual selfishness and the irruption of dark , subversive and irrational forces to tear down the cosy myths so assiduously cultivated during wartime . |
| 30 | On 18 October , therefore , the British government turned down the new fare proposals from American operators , while the CAA rejected British Airways ' request . |