Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb -s] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Questions of genre ’ he has returned to such fundamental terms of genre poetics as expectation , verisimilitude institutional discourses and practices specific to cinema ; his essay on the American war film breaks down the homogeneous generality of a single film genre into particular typologies of form , structure and discourse which play out particular regimes of power and ideology . |
| 2 | Visit the ancient temples and the tombs of the Pharaohs as your cruise ship sails down the Nile to Esna , Luxor , the West Bank and El Amarna before arriving back in Cairo ready for your flight home the following day . |
| 3 | New look , pure cotton jersey t-shirt buttons down the front , has three-quarter length sleeves and is shaped at the hem . |
| 4 | This is because the carbon monoxide content of cigarette smoke cuts down the amount of oxygen in the blood and accordingly the heart has to work harder yet it is getting less oxygen . |
| 5 | In the action c , f the Verona piano , the escapement lever pulls down the hammer beak while the hammer pivot remains stationary . |
| 6 | Reed beds offer a highly effective treatment because bacteria living within the root system breaks down the effluent into water , nitrogen and carbon dioxide . |
| 7 | As you know , in Britain Father Christmas climbs down the chimney to deliver his presents . |
| 8 | The injected magnetosheath plasma precipitates down the convecting open field lines , into the ionosphere in the cusps ( C ) . |
| 9 | If a slinky line of leopard print weaves down the runway , there is a wealth of Fifties sweaters and fake-fur coats to be unearthed . |
| 10 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |