Example sentences of "their [noun pl] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 2 | The two dealers escaped through a back window , after dropping their belongings down from the fire-escape . |
| 3 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 4 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 5 | All the trainees dealing with leads obtained from Dun and Bradstreet put their initials down on the white cards they sent out . |
| 6 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 7 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |
| 8 | Chancellor Kohl can intimidate mavericks in his Christian Democrat party by threatening to move their names down on the electoral list , exposing them to the risk of defeat at the polls . |
| 9 | Their friends bring their friends down for the week-end . |
| 10 | It was a case of hard-drinking men in late night bars slamming their pints down on the counter , declaring : ‘ I 'm not fuckin' going ’ . |
| 11 | But not away what they 're doing now or but it 'd be sent down to their premises down in the in the shooting lodges in the south . |