Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit |
| 2 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 3 | Ensure that no masonry falls down into the cavity , where it could interfere with the wall ties . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it conveys God 's presence because light shines down upon the world and illuminates everything within it . |
| 5 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 6 | When that white light comes down at the end |
| 7 | A quaint old-world village slopes down to the water , over green downs , quarried like some gigantic rabbit burrow , with the stone workings of seven hundred years ’ . |
| 8 | He turned in a sparkling performance for Derry against eventual All Ireland champions Down in the Ulster semi-final at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 9 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 10 | From a normal sailing position with hands equally spaced either side of the balance point ( marked by tape ) , the back hand B slides down towards the end of the boom . |
| 11 | The ‘ mouthpiece ’ and the ‘ horn ’ of the trumpet are both open , and a coil hangs down from the middle . |
| 12 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 13 | Sock Shop shuts down in the US . |
| 14 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 15 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 16 | The difference boils down to the fact that the Member of Parliament in Britain is expected by all concerned — his leaders , whips and colleagues to owe his primary loyalty to the party . |
| 17 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 18 | But the escarpments are fixed and here , where a stream tumbles down onto the plain , is the site of Claudia 's camp . |
| 19 | By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves . |
| 20 | A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance . |
| 21 | And with that the curtain comes down on the Gospel . |
| 22 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 23 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 24 | As the water trickles down into the water table , the rivers receive a constant supply of water and can irrigate agricultural land effectively . |
| 25 | Water seeps down through the limestone , carrying along tiny deposits of the rock it 's washing away . |
| 26 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 27 | Often , especially in autumn , the sky is streaked with the incandescent brilliance of oranges reds and gold as an enormous fiery ball sinks down behind the wolds . |
| 28 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 29 | GUIL moves down to the footlights and turns . ) |
| 30 | Lucker comes down to the water 's edge . |