Example sentences of "[adv prt] down [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the moment of truth as the eager new recruits take the controls and move off down a half-mile of track alongside the British Rail line . |
| 2 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 3 | Another engine change at Carlisle , No 37010 ex Cardiff Caerleon Depot and off down the WCML for the return trip - a long day , but after all the train took the strain ! |
| 4 | As Jenny walked off down the hall with the tray , Cassie shoved the kitchen door partly closed with her foot and darted to the pantry . |
| 5 | She stood in the window , holding back the heavy curtains , watching as Spencer climbed into his carriage and , with a wave to her , bowled off down the drive towards the roadway . |
| 6 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 7 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 8 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
| 9 | The faint hope offered by Springfield 's diagnosis of Brett 's condition , lent wings to his heels as he raced off down the road towards the vehicles parked at the front gates under Fenton 's care . |
| 10 | We roared off down the road from the village in the direction of the River Orne . |
| 11 | The 1958 Cadillac Eldorado swept out from the garage and set off down the road from Cromcruach . |
| 12 | Then he ran off down the road like a pack o' dogs was after him . |
| 13 | The two rafts will set off down the river at ten o'clock , each holding eight plus a guide . |
| 14 | The way he shook me off , as soon as you left us , and hurried off down the river like that . |
| 15 | He walked away , thrusting the swing door out of his way and striding off down the corridor towards his office . |
| 16 | Triumphant , he slammed the door and marched off down the corridor to his own cosy rooms , smugly requesting his domestic unit to prepare him a toasted sandwich and hot coffee . |
| 17 | The Asian security man unlocked the door to the documentary department office and loped off down the corridor with a distracted smile on his face . |
| 18 | Headed off down the motorway from Calais . |
| 19 | Goodnights were exchanged and George set off down the lane with Elizabeth , Sarah and their mother . |
| 20 | Happily he 's wrapped the case up , and even now should be off down the boozer for a bottle of the usual . |
| 21 | Josh shuffled off down the lip of the basin still sieving the water . |
| 22 | Tepilit is led by the askaris out of the small police station to a waiting van , which drives off down the track in a billowing cloud of dust . |
| 23 | He took as many arrows as he could carry and , holding his bow with an arrow ready notched , set off down the track after the verderers . |
| 24 | We struck camp next day and set off down the mountain on our way to the Webi Shebeli . |
| 25 | At daybreak Miss Logan , now wearing the pistol at her belt , set off down the mountain with the guide . |
| 26 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 27 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said the Princess , and set off down the stairs at a spanking pace . |
| 28 | I ran off down the hill to our street and went down the back alley-way to Julie 's , so my mum would n't see me . |
| 29 | Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed . |
| 30 | We started off down the hill towards the police station ; the culprit , as we saw him , leading the four gringos . |