Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 2 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 3 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 4 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 5 | Great shafts of white after-rain light poured down from the edges of the clouds and soon the sun shone alone in a patch of blue , a weakening autumn sun . |
| 6 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 7 | He stood silent beside the sofa , the black disc of the revolver trained on her , his face half in shadow from the harsh light shining down from the ceiling . |
| 8 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |
| 9 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 10 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 11 | Between the two lay the formidable barrier of the River Spey , which , as late as 17 March , was said to be ‘ so swelled with snow melting down from the hills that it will not be fordable without going a great way up the country ’ . |
| 12 | The functional association of two domains can then be interpreted through a hierarchical search extending down from the initial checking for the intersection of geometric domains , through an entity or edge condition check , into that for the relationships of the sub-surfaces contained within the spatial intersection . |
| 13 | The beds in the dormitory pull down from the wall and have hard plastic mattresses . |
| 14 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 15 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 16 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
| 17 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 18 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
| 19 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 20 | The South African sun burns down from a cloudless sky . |
| 21 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
| 22 | The ‘ mouthpiece ’ and the ‘ horn ’ of the trumpet are both open , and a coil hangs down from the middle . |
| 23 | With the scum being really lucky getting a draw from a good Norwich side , it seemed on the radio at least that Norwich had at least one decent penalty decision turned down from a spineless and gutless referee . |
| 24 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 25 | Trails of misty Lochaber rain came down from the Nevis mountain range and the round purple heather-clad hills of Glen Loy . |
| 26 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 27 | The beautiful barmaid waved down from an upstairs window . |
| 28 | The following morning there was a cool breeze blowing down from the hills ; the sky was the colour of attar of roses . |
| 29 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 30 | But if you had an imminent on your side you could have had the ache of the wind and rain crying down from the clouds . ’ |