Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] down a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the suspect must have noticed him , because he suddenly waved down a passing taxi and drove off . |
| 2 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 3 | Tufnell also sent down a miserly spell . |
| 4 | Now thoroughly rattled , he bowled a no-ball , from which Lamb curiously took a single and so lost the strike ; but when Walsh now sent down a full toss , Foster gleefully walloped it to the rope and England had won . |
| 5 | It maybe came down a little bit too slow for him . |
| 6 | One member of this party almost vanished down a hidden disused mineshaft on the walkout , thankfully managing to stop himself in time from going the distance ! |
| 7 | Calcutt , the son of a Home Counties chemist who won a Cambridge scholarship after a minor public school scholarship and then held down a successful practice at the Bar , has a common Great and Good pedigree . |