Example sentences of "down the [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 2 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 3 | I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps . |
| 4 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 5 | ‘ Take down the last three torches . ’ |
| 6 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 7 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 8 | Hurriedly , she jotted down the last few words , and started back out , but it was too late . |
| 9 | Write down the next two lines of a pattern of the bottom of the opposite page . |
| 10 | A is A two , write down the next two lines . |