Example sentences of "[vb pp] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 2 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 3 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 4 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 5 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 6 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 7 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 8 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 9 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 10 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 11 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 12 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 13 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 14 | Peter usually wore the number 11 shirt but frequently operated down the right flank . |
| 15 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 16 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 17 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 18 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
| 19 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 20 | Members in Ireland have tracked down the original carriage ; it was acting as a holiday home , and was virtually intact ! |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 22 | Double-digit inflation has also pushed down the average soldier 's standard of living . |
| 23 | drawn down the central spine , |
| 24 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 25 | The German environmental authorities have closed down the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , a nuclear research centre based in East Berlin after officials discovered massive contamination of the soil on the premises during routine tests . |
| 26 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |
| 27 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that the Albanian government had closed down the Albanian State Bank 's foreign exchange department after losses totalling $170,000,000 were disclosed in the department 's foreign exchange trading since 1988 . |
| 28 | On June 5th of that year he suddenly appeared at Racedown — ‘ he did not keep to the high road , but leaped over a gate and bounded down the pathless field ’ . |
| 29 | Donna rarely ventured down the wooden ladder into it ; it was not well lit and , despite Ward–s attempts to convince her otherwise , she was certain that the entire cellar was seething with spiders , creatures she was frightened of . |
| 30 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |