Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was put on a ventilator under sedation , and was given drugs through a drip to take down the bleeding and swelling in his brain . |
| 2 | On the night of Saturday 27 June a gang broke down the door of one of the galleries of the unguarded archaeological museum on the Cycladic island of Paros and stole eighteen exhibits , mostly marble figurines , dated to the Cycladic early Bronze Age ( 3200–2100 BC ) , with an estimated value of just under £300,000 . |
| 3 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 4 | During its restoration , a storm blew down a huge walnut tree in the roots of which was found the church 's bell , one of the oldest in Hungary . |
| 5 | Overall , the image gives a feel of the nature of diversification during development , since as a cell proceeds down a pathway and takes one of the branches , other pathways cease to be open to it . |
| 6 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 7 | I want a side parting down the |
| 8 | A KILLER gunned down a young father at his seaside home for no apparent reason . |
| 9 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 10 | POLICE yesterday named the man killed when a car plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 11 | AN INQUEST was opened yesterday into the death of a man killed when a car rolled down an embankment and hit a tree . |
| 12 | He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road . |
| 13 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 14 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 15 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 16 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |
| 17 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 18 | WREXHAM Maelor Borough Council last night again refused to say Yes or No to a bid to knock down a former hospital despite being warned it could face legal action . |
| 19 | Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house , destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind . |
| 20 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 21 | Nineteen people have been injured , five of them seriously after a coach crashed down an embankment , bankment on the M fifty on the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire border ; the coach was carrying elderly passengers on an outing . |
| 22 | HOLYBOURNE residents are being urged to support a campaign to slow down the traffic through their village . |
| 23 | But in essence , the flight instruments are located in random order on the left , the engine instruments are on the right and the radio is in a stack running down the centre . |
| 24 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 25 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |
| 26 | A stream tumbled down the cliff opposite our tents , then flowed through a jumble of rocks among a grove of trees . |
| 27 | And always when a funeral come down the school road , there 's blinds would be taken down as well . |
| 28 | It was a terrible injustice — as though they were seeking a scapegoat to put down a marker to keep other pilots on their toes . |
| 29 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 30 | On the second day of the storm a seaman bellowed down the hatch . |