Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No.4 Troop followed Captain Algy Forrester as he charged on down the high street . |
| 2 | As he moved back down the short landing toward the bathroom , Loren 's raised voice came to him again . |
| 3 | Replacing the bowls , they pedalled on down the steep hill and up the next . |
| 4 | " I 'm off home , She waved and cycled off down the High Street . |
| 5 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |
| 6 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 7 | The last of the Rat-Tail men walked on down the High Street towards the Cross , stars his calling-cards . |
| 8 | They swung off down the weedy gravel , skirting the grand , derelict stables and following the drive until it became a track and the land began to rise . |
| 9 | That afternoon , my feelings soothed with company and talk , Sally and I walked back down the bright valley through cricket-loud grasses and thousands of flowers . |
| 10 | The two girls walked back down the salmon-coloured path towards the house , each with a bouquet of vine leaves . |
| 11 | He went outside , shutting the large doors silently and started off down the concrete road . |
| 12 | Even this plan had to be revised when really bad weather struck and , after a couple of uncomfortable days hove-to off Jutland , she scuttled back down the Danish coast to Esjberg and , finally to the mouth of the Elbe and the Keil Canal . |
| 13 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 14 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 15 | Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path . |
| 16 | That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before |
| 17 | It pitched a yard short , bit viciously and rolled back down the green shelf at the front of the green . |
| 18 | He turned and stared back down the muddy track . |
| 19 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 20 | Corbett turned and looked back down the moonlit path . |
| 21 | The little ledge on the vertical edge was in the shade and we sat and sucked sweets and looked back down the sweeping ridge to where we 'd started , hours ago . |
| 22 | They left their luggage in the booking-office — which looked more like a chickencoop than anything else — and set off down the muddy track that the ancient porter had indicated . |