Example sentences of "[vb past] down [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 2 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 3 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 4 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 5 | But he thought the Seasiders played better against Blackpool last Saturday when they went down 2–1 to the Fourth Division leaders . |
| 6 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 7 | Widnes , who had won the official version in thrilling style against Canberra Raiders before more than 30,000 fans at Old Trafford four days earlier , went down 31-6 to the Eagles , a team formed only five years ago and without a permanent home . |
| 8 | They were beaten 3-2 in the semi-finals by the eventual winners , Berlin , and then went down 4-2 against the English side , Hightown , in the play-off for the bronze medals . |
| 9 | DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see why that went down big in the South of France . |
| 11 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 12 | The under 14s , meanwhile , beat Wales 5-1 yesterday but the seniors , including Ulster 's Ken Rowe , who lost 6-4 5-7 6-0 to Shaun Leleu , went down 4-1 to the same opponents to finish the weekend series without a win to their credit . |
| 13 | They disappeared down one of the side streets . |
| 14 | Everyone in the crowd was bowing back , and the waves of motion proceeded down each of the streets like ripples out across a pool . |
| 15 | He took off the hired robe and lay down naked on the bench . |
| 16 | Leftarm spinners Masood Anwaar and Leigh Beaumont , sent down 45 of the 55 overs in the afternoon . |
| 17 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 18 | ‘ We had a gale last night , and it brought down some of the tiles on your cottage . |
| 19 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 20 | A heavy gust of wind tore down one of the blades of Europe 's largest turbine , the VAWT 850 , at National Power 's Camarthen Bay Wind Energy Centre . |
| 21 | Anti-aircraft artillery shot down one of the Iranian aircraft and captured two crewmen . |
| 22 | Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe . |
| 23 | The silhouette sat down next to the snoring man , and looked hard at him . |
| 24 | ‘ After all , you do n't have to drive to get home any more , do you ? ’ and then he went and sat down next to the tourist . |