Example sentences of "down the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the jobs were done , I switched off my torch and lay on my back listening to a gerbil skidding up and down the tent under the fly-sheet . |
| 2 | This Act lays down the matters to be stated , and reports to be set out , in a prospectus issued when an offer or invitation is being made to the public . |
| 3 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 4 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he muttered , his glance trailing up and down the columns of print . |
| 5 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 6 | The whole house seemed to shake , and the wind whistled down the chimneys with a strange , unnatural sound . |
| 7 | While pulling down the ropes between the stalactites , crane your neck upwards and peer at the bolted lines of Jacky Godoffe 's grade eights , such as Autoportrait ( 8b+ ) . |
| 8 | Dumps are increasingly required to have special liners to stop moisture from seeping in ; to collect and treat any liquid that does get in ; to monitor the waste that is added to a dump ; and to provide for shutting down the landfill at the end of its life and cleaning up any environmental damage that may come later . |
| 9 | It dragged down the timbre of his voice to a gruff murmur . |
| 10 | The Doctor looked up and put on his spectacles which immediately slid down the perspiration on his nose . |
| 11 | Visit the ancient temples and the tombs of the Pharaohs as your cruise ship sails down the Nile to Esna , Luxor , the West Bank and El Amarna before arriving back in Cairo ready for your flight home the following day . |
| 12 | This happy combination has facilitated travel up and down the Nile since long before the days of the Pharaohs . |
| 13 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |
| 14 | Using a small hammer and 10-mm ( ⅜-in ) nails , press down the hardboard at one end of the backing sheet and hammer a nail into the frame , then do the same at the other end of the sheet , to balance the pressure on the back . |
| 15 | Chatichai had turned down the leadership of the party to which he had formerly belonged , Chart Thai , on July 2 citing old age ( he was 70 ) and political reasons . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Septic tanks are more like miniature sewage works and rely on the action of bacteria to break down the sewage into harmless liquid and sludge . |
| 18 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 19 | When they were asked afterwards , both Owen and North admitted that they had never imagined ‘ a victory march down the streets of Managua ’ . |
| 20 | I walk down the streets of New York , the Village , and they stop and they talk , they want autographs . |
| 21 | The party he had sought up and down the streets of Keswick , around the lake and in the gardens , was here in the mysterious circle of fifty upright stones at Castlerigg . |
| 22 | Sometimes Feeny will rise and sway , humming , with her arms above her head waving , remembering carnival 's forbidden dancing , sashaying down the streets of Jamieston in the wake of the bands weaving like a single creature on a hundred legs , through the alleys and in and out of the back yards . |
| 23 | And treking down the streets of downtown Kathmandu is Jan Turner … |
| 24 | Here the myth of the founding text is most clearly articulated to that of the founding fathers , whose word lays down the laws of a history in which women and children do not count . |
| 25 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 26 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 27 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |