Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grasshoppers three a-fiddling went , Alix hummed to herself , as she ran down Whitehall for the bus , swinging her shoulder bag in the cold , bright , showery , uncertain sun of late April . |
| 2 | So she washed down Gabriel on the day he first played an angel . |
| 3 | We tracked down Ranteallo in the most elegant of these structures , which he was sharing with some thirty family members , guests , and slaves . |
| 4 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 5 | I sent one of my boys to the Guildhall , they sent down constables of the ward . |
| 6 | It had started to snow and the thin white covering reflected the lights of the two police cars as they swept down Yorckstrasse towards the hotel . |
| 7 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 8 | He took down volumes from the shelves , undid their clasps and , chattering like a child , pointed out the beauty of the calligraphy . |
| 9 | Rainwater is relatively clean , but at the moment , it falls down drainpipes into the sewage system and is treated which is costly and the water is lost . |
| 10 | Apart from giving advice on the size of accommodation , it lays down guidelines for the construction of consulting rooms and examination cubicles , with particular emphasis on sound insulation and the maintenance of confidentiality . |
| 11 | It lays down standards for the media programme within the school , in terms of the provision of skilled personnel and plentiful materials in appropriate surrounds ; it specifies in some detail the media programme for the " school district " ( the American equivalent of the local education authority ) in similar terms of personnel , materials and distribution . |
| 12 | He went down country with the Army , and there 's a big difference between there and up here — it 's not a place where economy is considered in the same way , so maybe he learned some bad habits , such as a tendency to alcoholic drink . |
| 13 | He wrote down instances of the construction immediately after hearing it , supplementing this data source with material from broadcast speech and a limited amount of tape-recorded data . |
| 14 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |