Example sentences of "they [verb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 2 | They pinned down the boards and laid new felt and carpet — unaware Mike was underneath . |
| 3 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 4 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 5 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 6 | In silence they passed down the grandness of Whitehall , hemmed in by the blank facades of bureaucracy , ministries where men and women toiled in cold obscurity . |
| 7 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 8 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 9 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |
| 10 | The Robemaker moved forward , prodding Nuadu onwards and , as they moved down the centre of the Workshop , the blazing furnaces roaring on each side of them , Nuadu felt his skin already shrivelling from the heat . |
| 11 | A tiny patch of blue punctured the dark blanket of sky , and the sun peeped out from a corner of the horizon as they headed down the beach , not stopping until they reached a small rocky promontory shaded by bushy casuarinas . |
| 12 | They firmed down the earth and put a brick to mark the spot . |
| 13 | And you have to pay the little boys to guard your bikes otherwise they let down the tyres . |
| 14 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 15 | As they walk down the landing all you hear is , ‘ Nonce , nonce , nonce , nonce . ’ |
| 16 | It 's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name . ’ |
| 17 | They put down the wheelbarrow . |
| 18 | Basically they do the same job , that is they break down the structure of the hair and reset them with a neutraliser , but are made without animal testing , contain naturally derived ingredients and are biodegradable . |
| 19 | The way they joke about their LP going to 207 ‘ with an anchor ’ , the way they break down the myths of the American Dream and the Troubles back home … |
| 20 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
| 21 | sort of , the , the last pair went , went on and on and on , it got to twelve o'clock and the the , the landlord said right that 's it he said I 'm closing down no matter what , he said I 'd , I 've , he was n't eleven o'clock on , he said that 's it I ca n't keep it open any longer , so they closed it down , we called the game off , called it a boring match , they came down the club , fucking played them there , thrashed them out of sight first four games , no first five games , five nil , straight away , wahey , fucking walloped them , walloped their that was the , that was the league champion 's as well , Post Office in Grantham |
| 22 | After a while , I turned to watch them as they receded down the hillside — two lumbering animals , with bodies grossly disproportionate to their slender stick-like ankles . |
| 23 | If they were/are so f*cking classy why could nt they break down the defence ONCE ? ? ? ? ! ? ! ? ! ? |
| 24 | In the Zambian food riots they burned down the supermarket and looted the shops . |
| 25 | Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless . |
| 26 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 27 | Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself . |
| 28 | Once introduced , always at the initiative of the Government , Criminal Justice Bills are rolling stones gathering accretions as they travel down the Westminster hillside towards their final destination on the statute book . |
| 29 | They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh . |
| 30 | But after magistrates heard from the pig centre and from the RSPCA , they turned down the application . |