Example sentences of "down the [adj] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform and remembered something else from their past : Mother Bernie and her holes in the universe , the holes that let the Evil in . |
| 2 | The people remained as uncontrollable as the waters , burning down the Dutch settlement at Sandtoft during the Civil War and again in 1688 . |
| 3 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 4 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 5 | Police are trying to find out what caused the car to go out of control , cross the road and overturn down the steep embankment at just after 1pm . |
| 6 | He appeared in July ‘ 85 , ambling down the 18th fairway at Royal St George 's . |
| 7 | Moving down the open field at Kingsburgh , a view of the sea-loch comes into view , wide and bright , the view from her window every morning until Flora Macdonald and her husband left to try and increase their fortunes in America . |
| 8 | But Courier is playing down the fourth-round confrontation at Flushing Meadow , insisting : ‘ I see it as my next match — and every match is a new challenge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |