Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south side of the cut dips down into a beautiful hollow of vines , all but the lowest locations being ideally situated . |
| 2 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 3 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 4 | Along one of its sides the swastika meander breaks down into a confused key pattern . |
| 5 | The South African sun burns down from a cloudless sky . |
| 6 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 7 | From here to the coast the hills are open , the sun pours down on the huge dry fields , the atmosphere is colourless . |
| 8 | The concrete spillway below the Loch Add reservoir comes down to a stepped slope above the confluence of several small burns draining nearby slopes . |
| 9 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 10 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 11 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 12 | The slope of a hill stretches down to the playing fields . |
| 13 | The picture flicks down like a faulty framehold , vanishes beneath the rising sill . |
| 14 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 15 | ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties . |
| 16 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 17 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 18 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 19 | This means that the already very sleek 1 inch thickness on the top edge slims down to an amazing ″ at its thinnest point . |
| 20 | As tread depth gets down to a certain level , the efficiency of the tyre reduces . |
| 21 | The biggest influence on this behaviour has probably been the large increase in wealth , which in turn boils down to the sharp rise in house prices . |
| 22 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 23 | These plate margins are of three types : ( 1 ) divergent , where crustal material moves apart , under the oceans by a process known as sea-floor spreading ; ( 2 ) convergent , where one plate plunges down into the underlying mantle ( also known as subduction zones ) ; ( 3 ) transform faults , where one plate slides laterally with respect to its neighbour , crust being here neither created ( 1 ) nor destroyed ( 2 ) ( Fig. 18.1 ) . |
| 24 | There 's a swimming pool and sauna , and a path leads down to a private lakeside beach , and being a castle style hotel , there 's plenty of style . |
| 25 | The garden slopes down to a peaceful mill stream . |
| 26 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 27 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 28 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 29 | There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern . |
| 30 | Two miles further on , the A.890 from Loch Carron comes down to an improved junction . |