Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 2 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 4 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 5 | Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has developed new technology that could save lives : it 's called image link and it allows images from hospital scanners to be transmitted down the telephone line to a consultant at the Infirmary . |
| 6 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 7 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 8 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 9 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 10 | I honestly do n't think that the public walking past the building will actually notice very much , except that in the foyer , they 're going to be knocking down the sort of glass partition , so you , people will see that a little bit is going on . |