Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 2 | The last child — and the oldest — was always Flora Bouverie , who came trailing down the bus steps burdened with splitting carrier bags and fragile , half-made artefacts , peering about her blindly for her mother . |
| 3 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 4 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 5 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 6 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 7 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 8 | Sarah herself knew many women who had moonlighted down the Bayswater Road to supplement meagre war pensions or National Assistance . |
| 9 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |