Example sentences of "down a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talbot , accompanied by Denholm , climbed down a rope ladder to greet the owner . |
| 2 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 3 | If you are laying new insulation , take the opportunity to put down a vapour barrier of heavy-duty polythene sheeting over the loft floor first , if the plasterboard has no foil face . |
| 4 | His feet had slipped from the kicked steps and he was sliding down a water slope that ended , abruptly , at the chasm about twenty-five metres below . |
| 5 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 6 | I found my way down a communication trench . |
| 7 | She even turned down a government offer of extra clothing coupons on the grounds that hand-me-downs were quite good enough for her refugees . |
| 8 | A BOY aged THREE knocked down a poll tax collector and trapped a workman yesterday after commandeering a milk float . |
| 9 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
| 10 | A pride of lions hunting down a prey animal , such as a zebra , is one of nature 's more awesome spectacles . |
| 11 | Each document seeks to lay down a curriculum policy , define a subject area and stress the need for an education programme which is ‘ coherent and continuous ’ . |
| 12 | ( First Edition ) WARRINGTON have turned down a transfer request from Neil Harmon , their 21-year-old prop forward . |
| 13 | Teesside magistrates heard they put a terrier with an electronic collar down a badger hole . |
| 14 | I can put down a school teacher does that help ? |
| 15 | He spent time in Strawberry Studios in Stockport laying down a guitar part for Factory based Quando Quango , a surprising move on two accounts . |
| 16 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
| 17 | The first three songs on the album are tuned down a half step . ’ |
| 18 | The moratorium on the British coal industry takes into account the fact that Father Christmas ca n't fit down a gas fire 's flue outlet . |
| 19 | Main Picture Centre : Materials are lowered down a ventilation shaft for Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Junction Canal . |
| 20 | There is some case for doing this , particularly now that Whitehall is laying down a core curriculum for all schools . |
| 21 | She said oh I 've got to write down a credit limit . |
| 22 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 23 | While machine-gun fire raked the streets around his office , he walked down a back staircase and managed to slip away into hiding . |
| 24 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 25 | The two Constables … in a further neglect of duty went down a back entry , where they were caught smoking together , and later one of the Constables and the Acting Sergeant falsely concocted a story to disguise these infractions … |
| 26 | Dogs were used to put down a land reform demonstration outside the National Congress in Asunción on June 23 , 1989 ; 10 people were injured in what was the first major use of force since Rodríguez had seized power . |
| 27 | Russell Telford , 29 , stayed halfway down a pit shaft for nine hours after threatening a lift operator at Markham Main colliery , South Yorkshire . |
| 28 | He banged her head backwards , knocking down a domino row of Christmas cards . |
| 29 | Read the manufacturer 's descriptions carefully , for some of the smaller pools are really rock pools which are intended to sit near the summit of a rock garden so that water tumbles down a cascade unit into a pool below . |
| 30 | Again she went alone , because the Goad case came along and he had to hunt down a gangland killer . |