Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 2 | I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did . |
| 3 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 4 | The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go . |
| 5 | You melt the bones down into stock . |
| 6 | Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ? |
| 7 | Richmond , covering a huge swathe of the county from Hawes high in the dales down through Northallerton and Thirsk to the borders of Cleveland , re-painted itself blue with a vengeance . |
| 8 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 9 | The porter threw one venomous look at Ranulf , slammed the jack of ale down on the bench , grumblingly unlocked the postern door and led them out on to the white , dusty forest track which snaked between the trees down to Godstowe village . |
| 10 | I like , before coming to a decision , to get the arguments down on paper and it seems to me if you ca n't then convince yourself or anybody else that what you propose is logically right , it does n't much matter what your gut 's doing . |
| 11 | And were taken by the Primrose ( a small steam tender which conveyed the dockers down to Butterman 's Bay to partially unload ships too large to enter the dock fully laden ) to the ship . |
| 12 | THEY are playing the blues down at Boosey & Hawkes , the international music publishers and instrument makers , because the recession is catching up with them . |
| 13 | Alcock saw this as another opportunity to produce valuable results , but first , he would have to learn the stars down to magnitude eight , over six times fainter than those visible to the naked eye . |
| 14 | It is a good idea to jot the points down on paper before you dial the number . |
| 15 | He set the drinks down on Cattini 's side of the table and left the sandwich and the tab with Culley . |
| 16 | Oh well I 'll have to try , try keep going down to the courses down to Toshiba . |
| 17 | ‘ They fired every house and they ran the men down like deer . |
| 18 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 19 | So go ahead and take the children down to Devon , Laura . |
| 20 | Therefore from a local authority 's point of view action under section 100 of the Public Health Act 1936 in respect of a statutory nuisance would be more advantageous than the issue of a discontinuance order because the court , on finding a statutory nuisance , has the power to issue an injunction closing the premises down without compensation should it consider that the only way of abating the odour nuisance . |
| 21 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 22 | ‘ Hopefully your bloodhounds will be able to run the truants down before Sunday , in which case I 'd appreciate your contacting me at the hotel . ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher 's governments were determined to cut the unions down in size and , for all the incremental nature of the legislation , prepared the ground in advance . |