Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasant walk down a gently sloping hill past the toll house . |
| 2 | Adams set off an a solo run down the left reminiscent of his days at Leeds , and in the end Southampton 's adventure was rewarded leaving Ipswich with nothing to show for an entertaining afternoon 's work . |
| 3 | This descends alongside the ridge wall over High Pike and Low Pike and then diverges due south in a direct line down a steep slope to Bruntscar . |
| 4 | A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force . |
| 5 | We did 0–60mph in 5secs in the Rocket … drove a Volvo we loved … lived with a Ferrari for a month … built our own Caterham 7 … took a Lamborghini Diablo down a German autobahn at 201.4mph — and test the new Ford Escort , and liked it . |
| 6 | Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow . |
| 7 | To illustrate this , here 's a II/V sequence down a cycle of 4ths , dealing with one string set at a time . |
| 8 | The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel . |
| 9 | When their fighting ceased , she sat astride his chest , gradually sliding down to his toes like a small girl down a banister . |
| 10 | The BAA intends that a qualification scheme will soon be in place , with a graded multi-tier system of certificates available , from Assistant Supervisor ( where one is merely allowed to assist with abseiling a small group down a short drop ) through the Abseil Instructor and Abseil Coach . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation . |
| 12 | She died three years ago in a tragic fall down a flight of stairs . |
| 13 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 14 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |
| 15 | After a five-hour descent down a treacherous ridge , she and her two sherpa guides reached the relative safety of the expedition 's Camp Four at 26,000ft . |