Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] down from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to fly down from Liverpool to a sales meeting at Maidenhead via White Waltham had seemed too good to pass up . |
| 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 | Sliding her hands round to his flat stomach , she lightly ran her fingers through the hair arrowing down from his navel and he gave a long shudder . |
| 4 | Several stranded passengers looked on as the driver stepped down from the cab and was arrested . |
| 5 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 6 | The beds in the dormitory pull down from the wall and have hard plastic mattresses . |
| 7 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 8 | The light flooded down from five roundels high up on the far long side , as though in a cathedral clerestory . |
| 9 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 10 | Then the Scots raided down from the borders and put it to the torch . |
| 11 | The ash raining down from it added to the misery of the people in the area — the Sir Robert Sale reported lumps the size of pumpkins falling on her decks , and she was at least forty kilometres distant . |
| 12 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 13 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 14 | Incidentally , the wall coming down from Gragareth just beyond , marking the county boundary , has a stile that admits to Ireby Fell and The Cavern on the same contour . |
| 15 | A bus driver I spoke to in told me that the tinkers stayed down from . |
| 16 | A raft of exceptional items also included an £18 million write-down on the investment in Power Corporation , £18 million of reconstruction and redundancy costs , which saw the workforce whittled down from 30,000 to about 25,000 , and £63 million of further provisions made on land and property assets . |
| 17 | The notice came down from his door . |
| 18 | But the orders come down from above and we jump to it . |
| 19 | When the fourth year was beginning the vila called down from her hiding-place in the clouds and mist . |
| 20 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 21 | When the Derry team members take their place in Croke Park on September 19 for the All Ireland GAA final , chances are the song drifting down from the terraces will have been penned by Maghera man James Devlin . |
| 22 | After much huffing and puffing , the government backed down from implementing most of these proposals . |
| 23 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 24 | Most of the players backed down from a damaging dispute at a meeting with chairman Phil Lowe yesterday . |
| 25 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 26 | The road drops down from the col into the valley with an exhilarating suddenness and you are then in Arreau . |
| 27 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Army and former military dictator , ordered the Army to step down from a state of full alert on Sept. 24 in response to a telephone call from President Patricio Aylwin Azócar . |
| 28 | The females move down from the cliffs , across the shingle to the breakers , scrambling over one another in their anxiety to get to the water . |
| 29 | They confirmed there was a landing before the platoon moved down from the hill and astride the road west of Dili , where a Bren gun team caught a marching column of Japanese . |
| 30 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |