Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 2 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 3 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 4 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 5 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 6 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 7 | Once I am happy , the men are allowed to stand down until the next patrol . |
| 8 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 9 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |
| 10 | I actually do think what we 've got down in the third session is an enormous help from the point of view of our future review . |
| 11 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 12 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 13 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 14 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
| 15 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 16 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |