Example sentences of "run down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the area between the southern edge of the shopping area and the top of the bluffs which run down to the river . |
| 2 | Operational controls : over communications and command and control centres ( an ingredient of success in Poland in 1980–81 ) ; over fuel and munitions stocks ( run down before the invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia ) . |
| 3 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
| 4 | Did that run down to the river ? |
| 5 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 6 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |
| 7 | And he would run down to the canal , leap into the water , and splash and frolic to his heart 's content . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to make a guess this morning , ’ she told Alina , glancing back over her shoulder from the Cona machine as she waited for the water to run down through the filter . |
| 9 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 10 | They used to run down into the Nerd , or whatever river it is that runs through Ealing , and throw themselves in , yelling about the love of Jesus . |
| 11 | Ha had things been allowed to run down over the war ? |
| 12 | Generating company managers had merely allowed water levels to run down in the hope that the drought would eventually end ; only in March 1992 did they admit to a disaster , announcing nationwide rationing which was currently believed to be costing the economy an estimated US$330,000 each week . |
| 13 | He ordered the captain to display the royal standard on the stem , just in case the French believed they were pirates , as the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ began to run down alongside the galley . |
| 14 | There were wires running down towards the floor . |
| 15 | In the side-streets running down towards the river theatregoers are looking for parking-spaces , but on the pavements there 's no one but a few belated bureaucrats like myself , heading for trains and Tubes . |
| 16 | One particularly exposed ravine running down to the Meuse was nicknamed the ‘ Bowling Alley ’ by the Germans , and indeed the image was an apt one . |
| 17 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 18 | and there 's also there 's a usual crack between the plasterboard and ceiling over the door and a little crack running down to the door . |
| 19 | The slope running down to the quarry-cliff was not steep , but its surface was very treacherous , consisting mostly of loose stones and shale , which were apt to slip under any movement . |
| 20 | " I am going down , " she whispered , and before Maria Candida could stop her , had gathered her skirts and was running down to the hall . |
| 21 | I feel like jumping out and running down to the sea 's edge with bucket and spade . |
| 22 | In former times George 's Lane , starting close by the church , toll-house and former inn and running down to the river , was the village 's main link with the outside world and the river Lynher the main artery for trade and industry . |
| 23 | Elegant and impressive detached residence with large well-stocked garden running down to the river , said the card in the window of the village 's estate agent . |
| 24 | We 're all running down to the river like you said , they may not find us down there . |
| 25 | The wide eighteenth-century street running down to the riverside has grass verges in front of two long terraces of brick cottages . |
| 26 | He wanted Siward 's army over the centre , and also over the bright , narrow vein of the deepest of the many rivulets that seamed the field , running down to the Forth . |
| 27 | We bought the section running down on the east side eight years ago . ’ |
| 28 | To prevent this from running down on-to the rest of the body and the swaddling clothes , it was immediately covered by a narrow linen band known as the ‘ chrysom ’ ; and it was the custom , should a child die before it was one month old , that this chrysom was used as the head-covering to the funerary swaddling . |
| 29 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 30 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |