Example sentences of "down [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional tale of Earl Warrenne founding the custom in 1209 was a later attempt by establishment writers and the Christian Church to play down the early pagan origin of the custom . |
| 2 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 3 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |
| 4 | The small round window looked down over Knockglen , along the tree-lined drive of the convent through the big gates and down the broad main street of the town . |
| 5 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 6 | In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line . |
| 7 | These products , claim the manufacturers , prevent crust formation and solids settlement without the need for agitation , thus permitting easy and total emptying of the slurry store , digesting the solid material and biochemically breaking down the odorous chemical molecules . |
| 8 | writes down the immediate short term objective which has to be achieved ; |
| 9 | The Waverley puttered down the still narrow river like a little terrier keen to get to the open fields of the Firth and the sea beyond . |
| 10 | That evening , in his small black police car , Baldwin trundled again down the new arterial road through the western suburbs for another uneasy interview at Fort Belvedere . |
| 11 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 12 | As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs , he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle . |
| 13 | Onwards now down the narrow sloping path under the hillside trees , down , scrambling to the valley bottom ; then , turning back , to make the last gentle descent to the small chalk cliff . |
| 14 | How could he have accepted such a proposal without letting down the fifty thousand people who worked for him ? |
| 15 | I 'm concerned that we give our three children the right education and lay down the best possible plans for the future . |
| 16 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 17 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 18 | Parrish has acted before in the theatre though , landing a couple of solid psycho parts essentially not a lot different from the Fritz character — who changes his name to Eli and then Bud as he escapes across the country having gunned down the demonic rich bitch Twinkle ( one of Sean Young 's better performances ) . |
| 19 | Cope decided the risks were too great and , rather than attempt to fight his way through to Fort Augustus , led his men instead down the other military road , from Dalwhinnie to Inverness , a distance of 58 miles [ 93 km ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 22 | That same Friday evening in August , Theodora Braithwaite drove fast down the straight Roman road which was the only road into and out of Norfolk . |
| 23 | He moved closer , and Fran shuddered as he ran a finger softly down the straight little bridge of her nose . |
| 24 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 25 | The dungeons of the Louvre Palace were the antechambers of hell though very few of those who went down the dark stony steps ever emerged to recount their experiences . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's have it in the sitting-room , ’ Miss Honey said , picking up the tray and leading the way out of the kitchen and down the dark little tunnel into the room at the front . |
| 27 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 28 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 29 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 30 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |