Example sentences of "down [coord] its [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yarmouth corporation argued that Norwich Cathedral should be pulled down and its stone used for the construction of a workhouse , and in 1657 it was proposed that Rochester Cathedral should be sold and the proceeds used to pay the arrears owed to disabled sailors .
2 Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear .
3 That paper was later closed down and its editor , Percy Qoboza , went to work abroad .
4 The Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) announced on June 17 , however , that it would not participate , claiming that its offices had been closed down and its officials arbitrarily arrested by forces of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) .
5 Without chapter 11 , if a firm were shut down and its assets sold off , the spoils would go first to senior creditors — banks and others that had lent the firm money .
6 The plane dipped down and its starboard wing hit the water , flinging off Mr Treweek .
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