Example sentences of "down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway down the Canyon , you come to 400-million-year-old limestones . |
| 2 | The first FMLN announcement stated that one of the advisers had died instantly and the others within minutes from their injuries ; however , a further statement on Jan. 9 noted that two members of the unit which brought down the helicopter had been arrested on charges of murdering wounded prisoners of war , and that they would be dealt with according to " war justice " if found guilty . |
| 3 | Azerbaijan accused Armenian forces of shooting down the helicopter , while Armenia claimed that the cause had been poor weather . |
| 4 | When the jobs were done , I switched off my torch and lay on my back listening to a gerbil skidding up and down the tent under the fly-sheet . |
| 5 | If the nylon itself breaks down the tent is irreparable . |
| 6 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 7 | Melissa closed her eyes and gnawed her thumb as she struggled to nail down the clue that fluttered moth-like in her memory . |
| 8 | So in 1831 the commoners rioted in the Forest of Dean , threw down the enclosures , and drove their cattle and sheep into the coppices : they had to be suppressed by soldiers . |
| 9 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 10 | And part of it is discipline — you know , making your room up and one day you clean the porch , one day you sweep down the kitchen … you have different duties every day . |
| 11 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't care for myself , ’ he tells Felicity , walking up and down the kitchen as she prepares dinner . |
| 13 | ‘ Go down the kitchen and find a couple of glasses . |
| 14 | She walked her up and down the kitchen and sang to her . |
| 15 | This Act lays down the matters to be stated , and reports to be set out , in a prospectus issued when an offer or invitation is being made to the public . |
| 16 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 17 | On finals , the approach speed was initially pegged at 65 knots and I was able to take hands and feet off to confirm that , like a true thoroughbred , the 207 , with just a trickle of power , will go down the glide slope as if born to it . |
| 18 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he muttered , his glance trailing up and down the columns of print . |
| 19 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember a number that I think might interest you , ’ he said encouragingly , starting at the beginning of the book and going down the columns to look for it . |
| 21 | It crept down the columns that the place we were to attack was a village called Neuve Chapelle . |
| 22 | Glancing down the columns , she immediately discovered some new information : Puddephat had been accompanied at the inquest by his wife , she learned with surprise . |
| 23 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 24 | •Sandy Lyle turned down the invitation to play in the 1989 Ryder Cup . |
| 25 | But in a furious reply to Mersey Regional Health Authority chairman Professor Alisdair Breckenridge , the MP turned down the invitation . |
| 26 | The Convoy Aid Romania coordinator has challenged other mercy groups to a public debate but Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has turned down the invitation . |
| 27 | The whole house seemed to shake , and the wind whistled down the chimneys with a strange , unnatural sound . |
| 28 | The fire brigade were called in to take down the ropes that year . ) |
| 29 | While pulling down the ropes between the stalactites , crane your neck upwards and peer at the bolted lines of Jacky Godoffe 's grade eights , such as Autoportrait ( 8b+ ) . |
| 30 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |