Example sentences of "down from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 2 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 3 | Thank you , erm before we go to the vote er Mr will you accept that er the third line down from the second resolution er made for the national licensing of all registration scheme will cover the amendment you wanted to put on to the labour resolution . |
| 4 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 5 | In an effort to reduce it , the government increased interest rates , which restricted growth to an estimated 6.5 per cent in 1990 , almost a full percentage point down from the 1989 figure . |
| 6 | ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties . |
| 7 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 8 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 9 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 10 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 11 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 12 | Therefore , for 600 rpm , the attitude change would be 3 half-bars , that is a change of one and a half bars down from the existing attitude . |
| 13 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 14 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 15 | Cologne , 2-0 down from the first leg in Belgrade , won through to the quarter-finals with two goals from Goetz , his equaliser coming seven minutes from time , and a last-minute winner from Ordenewitz . |
| 16 | Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively . |
| 17 | He is still trying to shrug off a throat and chest virus , but seems certain to start the game with Wednesday , 3-1 down from the first leg , struggling for striking cover . |
| 18 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 19 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 20 | With hands in sleeves , the old man looked extremely Oriental , long moustaches curving down from the upper lip . |
| 21 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 22 | Ruth , looking down from the upper deck , her hand clasped around Anna 's , lifted her clear soprano voice with the rest , though it was difficult to sing because of the tight aching in her throat and the tears which pricked at her eyes . |
| 23 | A big cat that has only recently gone extinct is the sabre-tooth ( " tiger " ) , named after its colossal canine teeth which jutted down from the upper jaw in the front of what must have been a terrifying gape . |
| 24 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
| 25 | It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . " |
| 26 | One can distinguish a typical trajectory — shown moving down from the upper left of the figure — as married couples reach the statutory retirement-age . |
| 27 | In the gloom and dust inside , there were fluted columns and small , implacable stone faces with crowns that glared down from the upper walls . |
| 28 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 29 | Here , on all sides where this softer rock breaks or underlies the surface , streams flowing down from the upper slopes , aided and abetted by heavy rain , have , ever since the landscape was formed , been slowly penetrating the ground and eroding a honeycomb of underground caverns and passages of amazing dimensions . |
| 30 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |