Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 2 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 3 | Isabella now sent Henry of Lancaster to the lordship of Glamorgan to hunt down the king and the younger Despenser . |
| 4 | The entablature and cornice are decorated in a restrained manner and originally the tympanum was ornamented with a bronze relief of Zeus striking down the Greeks . |
| 5 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 6 | If not , the batting options are almost limitless — including the possibility of Gooch dropping down the order , as he did for several one-dayers in India , and Mark Lathwell opening with Alec Stewart . |
| 7 | To preempt the danger of a revolutionary regime dominating the nearby Musandam peninsula , the Shah in 1973 sent a contingent to help the Sultan of Oman put down an insurrection in Dhofar province prompted by its communist neighbour , South Yemen . |
| 8 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 9 | The government with effect from March 15 imposed restrictions at its border with Hungary to slow down the inflow of East Europeans . |
| 10 | A female out-take from ‘ Metal Box ’ with the guitars turned up , with a weirdo piano bit in the middle with Katie singing down a toilet and then a thrash ending . |
| 11 | With Boro plummeting down the Premier League table , Lawrence warned : ‘ One or two will have to go , and new players will have to come in . ’ |
| 12 | But Hannibal 's wars with Rome brought down the devastating armies of the empire , and what war had not spoiled , the mosquito finished off . |
| 13 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 14 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 15 | A rapid counter-offensive culminated in Hateley bursting down the left flank . |
| 16 | A hoax in Newcastle shut down the main BR railway station , and in Tyne and Wear thousands of tube passengers were stranded when all 46 Metro stations were evacuated while 37 miles of track was searched . |
| 17 | He spent time in Strawberry Studios in Stockport laying down a guitar part for Factory based Quando Quango , a surprising move on two accounts . |
| 18 | we 'll go straight up to Taughmonagh go down the town early in the morning and I 'll take you to the shop where they maybe get you a rugby jumper |
| 19 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 20 | Russell pretty good figures , this is er fifteenth over , two for seventeen , eight maidens , giving the one wicket that goes field him for thirty-four and he comes up again , that little hop and bowls to DaSilva goes down the pitch , tips this one up to mid-on , but er wo n't get one as figure Lawrence is there to stop it , so no run , to play to sixteen overs , seven twenty eight . |
| 21 | The armies that came to Lebanon marched down a long , dull tunnel that inevitably ended in brown smoke and pieces of flesh . |
| 22 | Once settled , we continued our walk , picking our way along the shoreline to Ravenscar to hunt down the shale fossils there . |
| 23 | On Jan. 31 the federal Collective State Presidency announced that it had ordered ( unspecified ) " special measures " to try to end the violence ; according to unofficial reports a majority of the Presidency members had voted two days earlier against sending federal troops to Kosovo to put down the unrest . |
| 24 | The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase . |
| 25 | In desperation I phoned all over London to track down the PR firm who organized the lunch . |
| 26 | 59101 newly named ‘ Village of Whatley ’ at Bridgnorth heading down the Severn Valley Railway at the top of Northwood Lane , Bewdley , during the SVR Diesel Gala . |
| 27 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |