Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 2 | and my knickers fell down in the snow . |
| 3 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 4 | I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’ |
| 5 | Landing feet first , I broke only partway through the crust , so that nothing but my boots plunged down into the softer material beneath . |
| 6 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 7 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 8 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 9 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 10 | The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder . |
| 11 | The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway . |
| 12 | Her ordeal finally ended when her car broke down on the A559 , near Cransley Private School in Great Budworth , Northwich . |
| 13 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 14 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 15 | Gina sprang to her feet glaring down at the golden-skinned Dane lounging opposite her . |
| 16 | Unhinged in her mind when her fiancé went down with the Wessex , poor dear . ’ |
| 17 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
| 18 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 19 | Out of the corner of her eye , she watched her husband staring down at the cot . |
| 20 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 21 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 22 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
| 23 | Cloth of gold and exquisite tapestries hung on the walls , their fringes reaching down to the wooden panelling . |
| 24 | Her father squinted down at the page but she banged the book shut and slid it back on the shelf . |
| 25 | Her passengers hurried down into the empty hold , where the roof of the Alice was splitting into two . |
| 26 | Her knife sliced down into the breast of the chicken . |
| 27 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 28 | United to continued to prove to press forward but found their moves breaking down in the visitor 's penalty area . |
| 29 | Her voice shivered down through the magic air around them ; her fingernails were a cap of spikes upon his head . |
| 30 | — ’ Her hand flopped down on the sheet . |