Example sentences of "down the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have had the throat of a raven because it cuckooed its way up and down the valley for weeks on end . |
| 2 | I believe that the hon. Gentleman and his friends have misused those reports in the past , but cutting down the scope for reports from the inspectorate has nothing to do with my proposals . |
| 3 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |
| 4 | Here , boards can speed down the course within feet of the beach in consistent summer trade winds of up to 45 knots , and it looks set to become the ideal venue for breaking records . |
| 5 | Those whose task it is to lay down the law on matters of ethics and morality need to ensure that their views are based on a wide knowledge of human institutions and their history . |
| 6 | I stare at it , thinking down the depth of years to that frozen day by the river . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone help Caroline , please , ’ Miss Fazackerly cried , rushing up and down the line of children like a sheep dog . |
| 8 | You can track down the words of songwriters from books of librettos , record sleeves , or by playing their records or cassettes if you have a lot of time to spare . |
| 9 | Once you have run FDISK you should then run FORMAT to lay down the pattern of tracks for each logical drive . |
| 10 | Japan has announced that it intends to scale down the use of driftnets in the run-up to the UN ban which takes effect at the end of the year [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 11 | Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods . |
| 12 | A new drug which could slow down the onset of Aids in people infected with the HIV virus is undergoing trials in America . |
| 13 | An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries . |
| 14 | Indeed , it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size . |
| 15 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 16 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |
| 17 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 18 | It was later reported that both sides had scaled down the number of troops along the border . |
| 19 | By monitoring their movements 18 hours a day , stopping and searching their cars and raiding their homes , the RUC believe they have already cut down the number of attacks on Catholics in North Belfast . |
| 20 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 21 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 22 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 23 | The Dr'gasians were damping down the fire amid clouds of smoke and steam . |
| 24 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
| 25 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
| 26 | Your mum guessed it was Bristol , she went down the list of codes in the telephone book . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Bowstead says that location is quite far down the list of priorities for companies choosing a printer and that P&W is well to the fore in providing services such as pass-the-press which allows clients to check the product during the printing process . |
| 28 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 29 | This unity in the Spirit bridges the gap between Jews and Gentiles once they become Christians ( Eph. 2:15 ) and breaks down the hostility between men of different col-ours and backgrounds . |
| 30 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |