Example sentences of "down in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind the boring breakbeat rubbish going around , this is the real story , which trips you up and hoses you down in a shower of sparkling special effects . |
| 2 | She sa Mick said fetch tape down , so I says alright , I 'll be down in a bit . |
| 3 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 4 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 5 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 6 | Near the village of Higaturu , the mangled remains of a vehicle were found hanging upside down in a tree . |
| 7 | Came down in a tree and broke both his legs . |
| 8 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 9 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 10 | They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles . |
| 11 | Percy the park-keeper rescues the animals when their old oak tree is blown down in a storm , and the new house he builds for them is presented in a fold-away poster at the end of the book . |
| 12 | We had trees down in a storm . |
| 13 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 14 | ‘ When she had repeated herself five or six times , the CIA man slammed the phone down in a rage , and Reagan never learned what he had to say . ’ |
| 15 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |
| 16 | Her head snapped back down in a flurry of bouncing coppery hair , her eyes warily searching Lucenzo 's face for some sign of compassion . |
| 17 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 18 | Place upside down in a dish and pour over the butter , sprinkle with salt and add a tablespoon of vermouth . |
| 19 | Tired and exhausted mentally and physically ; break down in a sweat and become excited and irritable . |
| 20 | It is alleged he was beaten with a horse whip when tied upside down in a barn , went hungry and was fed dog food from a bowl . |
| 21 | The Consumers ' Association , which last month gave Airtours the thumbs down in a Holiday Which ? report on tour operators , described the decision as ‘ baffling ’ and ‘ a severe disappointment ’ . |
| 22 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 23 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 24 | As Kierkegaard remarked , the method which doubts in order to philosophize is little more suited to its purpose than the notion of teaching a soldier to stand up straight by learning to lie down in a heap . |
| 25 | Then , with a jerk , plopped down in a heap , a rosette of green leaves held in her hands . |
| 26 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 27 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 28 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 29 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 30 | Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off . |