Example sentences of "it [vb past] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 2 | It crept down the columns that the place we were to attack was a village called Neuve Chapelle . |
| 3 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 4 | It coasted down the mud walls and sploshed into the channel . |
| 5 | No on when it came down the bag missed the hanger instead of one bit going each side of the hanger so that the clothes were inside |
| 6 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 7 | It was this example that the AfDB had in mind when , in 1990 , it turned down the Cameroon road project . |
| 8 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 9 | The desert boiled around his lorry while it rumbled down the slope . |
| 10 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 11 | She nodded , spilling juice down her front so that it trickled down the pop star 's face . |
| 12 | Its real blessing , of course , was that it kept down the numbers of mice and rats . |
| 13 | For instance , it kept down the direct cost of media to the consumer . |
| 14 | This was not what English food exporters wanted but , as it kept down the cost of provisioning the sugar plantations , it was supported by the sugar industry in England . |
| 15 | Suddenly , the grass around the den began to rustle and clumps of it fell down the bank . |
| 16 | This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity . |
| 17 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 18 | So every night he put the snake through the air-vent , and it went down the bell-rope on to the bed . |
| 19 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 20 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 21 | According to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties before it shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in July , 1991 . |
| 22 | They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol . |
| 23 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 24 | it shot down the hole . |
| 25 | It dragged down the timbre of his voice to a gruff murmur . |
| 26 | As it slid down the avenue the old crow , which had risen and was circling warily , dropped down again to its crust . |
| 27 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |