Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 2 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 3 | Later , David pulled on Clare 's towelling bathrobe and led Josh down to the kitchen . |
| 4 | I 've raised this , these points that we 've raised when we went and met Donald down at the park , and the school have said they will not erm allow the children to go that way . |
| 5 | It allows a relatively modern driving position with straighter arms than the slightly foreshortened and big-wheeled Healey , but the stubby gear lever and handbrake lever down on the central tunnel are very similar car to car . |
| 6 | Over the years I have done all kinds of work with horses , hay-making , spreading and harrowing manure and hauling coal down from the road on a sledge . |
| 7 | The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead . |
| 8 | Currently bending the air waves on Radio Ulster , and regulars on BBC 's ‘ Talk Back ’ programme , they 've gigged the North and brought houses down at the Edinburgh Fringe . |
| 9 | RICHARD ( No trace of a sigh ) : The seed germinates and sends roots down to the earth for nutrients . |
| 10 | In the street outside the hotel , a crowd cheered and cheered ; periodically someone would go on to the balcony and throw roses down to the assembled admirers . |
| 11 | He stripped them off the mattress and carried Willie down to the living room . |
| 12 | Continue feeding roses in pots , but keep humidity down in the greenhouse , lightly shading the glass and ventilating freely in sunny weather . |
| 13 | The trend towards downsizing — which it describes as moving power down to the desktop level — is already more advanced in Europe than it is in the US , it claims , where the power of large corporations tends to prolong the supremacy of mainframes . |