Example sentences of "[adv] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right down past the big dole office in town , up that way , and then that way , instead of coming through Green . |
| 2 | That 's what we 're aiming for here — trying to make individually-designed guitars with real integrity that you can take right down off the shelf and use at a gig . ’ |
| 3 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 4 | Right down at the bottom there by the apple tree . |
| 5 | You know , wiping er a body down , you know , wiping it right down with a , with a mutton cloth we call it . |
| 6 | It was probably whilst flying high over an approaching enemy that one Goblin got a bit carried away , and steering himself as best as he could with his crude wings , crashed right down onto the enemy army . |
| 7 | It was all the Yeti 's doing when you come right down to it . |
| 8 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 9 | While the first group of dogs feeds — it takes just a few seconds for them to finish the bowls , right down to the lick clean — I huff on my fingers , more hopefully than knowingly . |
| 10 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 11 | Cut them when they are about half open , but not right down to the ground ; be sure to leave at least two sets of leaves on the stem . |
| 12 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 13 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 14 | In loving detail , right down to the rancid smell of burnt onions from hamburger vans , Reid describes three days spent at the races with his charmingly unsavoury friends A. J. Kincaid , John Moynahan and the Major . |
| 15 | If you were designing the ultimate holiday resort for Club 18–30 , you would copy San Antonio right down to the last bar and grain of sand . |
| 16 | The sweeping lawns and garden lead right down to the lake , where there is a small private beach , and fabulous views of the Borromean Islands . |
| 17 | You had to go right down to the bottom to the lavatory : that was a game , that was . |
| 18 | Skinhead tastes are ‘ right down to earth ’ . |
| 19 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 20 | We travelled on Friday , hoping for an early night and a crisp , prompt start the next morning , and so far everything was under control , right down to having remembered that all-important flask . |
| 21 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 22 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 23 | This letter simply must go tonight , and I ca n't go right down to the G.P.O. or I shall be late for my appointment . ’ |
| 24 | This implies that capital charges will go right down to the departmental level in the budgetary control system . |
| 25 | Black dresses right down to our ankles . |
| 26 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 27 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |
| 28 | The whole of it , right down to ‘ Go on the stage and be an actress . ’ |
| 29 | He possessed a lovely long tail which swept right down to the ground and it was a lovely sight to see him turn round . |
| 30 | I drifted after the three of them to watch the runners come out for the third race and was n't far behind them when they walked right down to the rails to see the contest from the closest possible quarters . |