Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | To reach the dais from the windswept coach park the tourists file down a narrow gorge before negotiating a series of ladders and bridges . |
| 2 | Last night at Elm Park the rain lashed down , the wind howled and the quest was for memories and money — and a goal . |
| 3 | The bureau must be available in case the scheme broke down . |
| 4 | In the Nutricia case the court laid down various guidelines . |
| 5 | On the facts of the case the balance came down in favour of protecting the fair trial . |
| 6 | In either case the designer writes down the sequence of actions which must be taken coupled with informational indications of what should be happening . |
| 7 | So the Minister has to be very clear , when he comes to the Dispatch Box , whether any company applying to take over STG subsidiaries will be required to take on board the specifications laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |
| 8 | Our friends from Harvard might reply that there is still nothing sexist about the convention , and the triumph of he might even reflect its ‘ naturalness ’ for the function the prescriptivists laid down for it . |
| 9 | Receiving only whispers for a reply the boy wriggled down and sat under his father 's feet . |
| 10 | After the official ceremony the party moved down to the Town Hall , and incidentally how appropriate that the Railway and the Railway Society that have always been so intimately involved with the town should hold its celebration at Bishop 's Castle 's ancient Town Hall with the mayor , district council chairman in attendance . |
| 11 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 12 | In the distance Alyssia could see the flat blue sea , and at the far side the path leading down to the cove . |
| 13 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 14 | On the one side a Conqueror riding down to Hastings : on the other , a Harold . |
| 15 | Of course every now and again the hand goes down the side a hand goes down and up comes the sweets and it 's continuous . |
| 16 | At that moment the police smashed down the door . |
| 17 | Lady Thatcher , an Oxford graduate , was originally proposed for an honorary degree in 1985 but members of the university 's ruling body the Congregation voted down the idea in protest at her Government 's handling of education . |
| 18 | But with up to 6,000 pounds of fuel a minute gushing down the 4-inch pipe , the danger is kept to a minimum . |
| 19 | On the second day of the storm a seaman bellowed down the hatch . |
| 20 | At our local market I stocked up on walnuts , satsumas and last-minute presents of leather goods , then on Christmas Day the sun blazed down as we tucked into a roast chicken and raised glasses of cheap local champagne . |
| 21 | It was now December and the weather would not co-operate ; day after day the fog came down . |
| 22 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 23 | The first day the lad chopped down ten large trees entirely by himself . |
| 24 | Sometimes bad things hung on so it was possible to remember an outing as the day the car broke down rather than the day there was a barbecue on the beach and the party went on until the tide came in . |
| 25 | On his head the twilight rained down like something palpable , as the ancient biblical ritual took place before him . |
| 26 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't care if I dissolve into a puddle the minute the curtain comes down . |
| 28 | As with the extended facility the Fund lays down conditions for borrowing . |
| 29 | ( 5 ) If a parliamentary by-election occurs in the constituency the procedure laid down in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall be suspended and the National Executive Committee shall co-operate with the Executive Committee of this party in the nomination of a candidate . |
| 30 | The same night the lan'lord fell down a flight o' stairs an' broke 'is neck . |