Example sentences of "we [verb] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 2 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 3 | Sick of talk , we cycled down the green tunnel |
| 4 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 5 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 6 | We run down the other end and have a go at Sunderland fans … and like against Villa when they all got pushed onto the pitch … we 're all in there … |
| 7 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 8 | We climbed down the notched-pole ladder and picked our way through the muddy ground towards the back path , passing the neatly stacked woodpile and the growing heap of freshly gathered pine-needles . |
| 9 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 10 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 11 | The struggle for survival is all that he knows : ‘ When we were in charge during the riots , ’ he says ‘ we pulled down the national flag outside the supermarket . |
| 12 | As we continue down the stratigraphical column we find examples in other kinds of sediment and in other kinds of quite high energy facies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 15 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 16 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 17 | as in this case we go down the three column , the three is a in the numerator N one , right , till we reach seventeen , right , and now test to see if it 's three point two right , so if we |
| 18 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 19 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 20 | I cursed but did as he requested and afterwards we slipped down the darkened stairway out of the main door where Benjamin had ordered a sleepy-eyed groom to bring round the horses . |
| 21 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 22 | We thunder down the cold stone stairs |