Example sentences of "down [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 2 | Walking down the Promenade to the Albion Hotel for luncheon , with Samuel striding ahead like Stonewall Jackson , and Gwendolen having found an apparent soul mate in Lord Beddington , Oliver found himself forced to walk next to Angelina . |
| 3 | As she walked down the companionway to the lower deck the breeze moulded her couture suit of cream silk bouquet against the contours of her body . |
| 4 | She shinned down the rope to Jekub 's deck . |
| 5 | Graham waited until the two men were seated in the cafeteria before moving down the platform to the freight car . |
| 6 | He slipped down the door-post to the ground . |
| 7 | Turning from the ugly sight of the old woman 's contorted features , she fled the room , running incontinently down the gallery to the stairs , unaware that Hector , barking excitedly , ran out after her . |
| 8 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 9 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 10 | These run down the valley to the west of the river through Black Hall , Birks and Grassguards farms to Seathwaite village ( 4.5 miles ) . |
| 11 | At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , work by Janet Hemingway on anopheline mosquitoes has shown that malathion specific resistance is inherited as a single gene controlling a carboxylesterase enzyme which breaks down the malathion to its monoacid . |
| 12 | ( Bantam , £3.99 ) agrees , but narrows down the problem to unstated , unacknowledged and unexpressed anger and a fear of intimacy . |
| 13 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 14 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 15 | It bore the address of the garage also , and he relayed it down the phone to Sam . |
| 16 | Right now the others are chatting with Guy Holmes and Tamzin , discussing their love lives — in Fred and Rob 's cases matters of quite rampaging heterosexual complexity — while Richard talks down the phone to South Africa , saying ‘ success has a price … ’ |
| 17 | At the risk of having you bellow down the phone to me that it 's none of my business , I think you made a big mistake . |
| 18 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 19 | What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was |
| 20 | ‘ It 's four afternoons a week , ’ Kitty Bouverie said down the telephone to Anna . |
| 21 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 22 | There was no lack of willing help to carry it down the croft to the cliff edge from where it was carefully lowered to the beach . |
| 23 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 24 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 25 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
| 26 | Virginia ran urgently down the hillside to the car . |
| 27 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 28 | Overloading of the sieves restricts the opportunity for particles to progress down the nest to an appropriate mesh . |
| 29 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
| 30 | Cranston grabbed the head from the horror-struck beggar 's hand , thrust it back into the bag , stepped over the still prostrate maid and , roaring for Maude , dashed down the passage-way to the door . |