Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 2 | From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river . |
| 3 | Mark the spot on the surface just beyond the distance you can see down the burrow , and this is where you dig your first hole . |
| 4 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 5 | As the clocks chimed and struck all over the city he would stroll down the Broad , along St Giles and round by the Parks … |
| 6 | You ca n't usually " turn off " the picture in the same way you can turn down the sound but there are various ways you can organise things so that the class is presented with the soundtrack only : |