Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 2 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 3 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 4 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 5 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 6 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 7 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 8 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 9 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 10 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 11 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |
| 12 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |