Example sentences of "[vb past] down a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 2 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 3 | Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators , who also burned down a trade union office and fired guns outside the office of the National Front for Change and Democracy ( FNCD — a loose coalition group led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide ) because both had allegedly called for Préval 's resignation . |
| 4 | She even turned down a government offer of extra clothing coupons on the grounds that hand-me-downs were quite good enough for her refugees . |
| 5 | Magistrates turned down a defence application that the children 's names should not be disclosed . |
| 6 | Robins turned down a summer move to Dynamo Dresden before moving to Norwich from Old Trafford where he scored 11 goals in 48 League appearances . |
| 7 | MORE than 170 Bosnian refugees have been refused visas to enter Britain , only hours after they turned down an asylum offer from Spain . |
| 8 | Talbot , accompanied by Denholm , climbed down a rope ladder to greet the owner . |
| 9 | There was a plant , which grew and blossomed along the picture rail , and climbed down a picture cord to embrace the frame of a small oil painting of naked nymphs ; there was the end of a brass bedstead , upon which other plants clambered and flowered . |
| 10 | She walked down a stone staircase to a basement where you could hang your coat . |
| 11 | While machine-gun fire raked the streets around his office , he walked down a back staircase and managed to slip away into hiding . |
| 12 | As Mr Cheney and General Yazov walked down a Pentagon corridor , Mr Cheney stopped General Yazov to point out a display honouring Dwight Eisenhower , who commanded Allied forces in Europe during the Second World War . |
| 13 | KELLY Good painstakingly glued a gold bow to the front of her pink velvet jewellery box and stuck down a Christmas label . |
| 14 | A BOY aged THREE knocked down a poll tax collector and trapped a workman yesterday after commandeering a milk float . |
| 15 | Dave Walker touched down a pack push-over and winger Paul Holdstock scored a try to put Newcastle 14–0 ahead at half time . |
| 16 | Dave Walker touched down a pack push-over and winger Paul Holdstock scored a try to put Newcastle 14–0 ahead at half time . |
| 17 | He turned to the bookshelves and pulled down an art book . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's see what my father has to say when I tell him you broke down a hotel door and tried to rape me ! ’ |
| 19 | POLICE tracked down a health scare sandwich yesterday — and warned a French girl student not to eat it . |
| 20 | The two Constables … in a further neglect of duty went down a back entry , where they were caught smoking together , and later one of the Constables and the Acting Sergeant falsely concocted a story to disguise these infractions … |
| 21 | When the noise died down a signal gun was fired and five boats pushed off from the shore and began the race . |
| 22 | On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line . |
| 23 | PANAMA CITY — Troops loyal to the Panamanian military leader , General Manuel Noriega , put down a coup attempt by junior officers in the capital yesterday after a day of heavy fighting , a spokesman for the Panama Defence Forces said . |
| 24 | The court struck down an area restraint on dealing by an employee but severed that from a restraint on soliciting and supplying . |
| 25 | Here Müncheberg shot down a Hawker Fury biplane of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force , destroying a second on the ground five minutes later . |
| 26 | The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) on Jan. 2 shot down a transport helicopter with three United States military advisers on board over Lolotique , eastern El Salvador . |
| 27 | Michael Smith was driving the quad bike which ran down a hunt saboteur . |
| 28 | And he is known for his after-match tantrums , which include an incident when he kicked down an advertising board . |
| 29 | In Harlow , Essex , police arrested at least 45 people when they closed down an acid house party attended by 3,000 to 4,000 people at a disused warehouse at 6am yesterday , a police spokesman said . |
| 30 | The magistrate set down a trial date of the fourth of February . |