Example sentences of "[noun] be down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight . |
| 2 | The pound is down against the dollar and the Deutsch Mark at one dollar , seventy-three and at two marks , eighty-eight . |
| 3 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 4 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 5 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 6 | PENSIONER Ivy Groves was down in the mouth yesterday — because Government red tape will leave her without false teeth for weeks . |
| 7 | Next morning Ruth was down in the kitchen early , eagerly hoping to find Sean there . |
| 8 | It 's all in , I mean the days are down from the top to the bottom . |
| 9 | The blinds were down in the study to protect new furnishings from the sun , and the light was subfusc and aqueous . |
| 10 | Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test . |
| 11 | Rab was down on the floor gathering his prescription . |
| 12 | Choice of sex and colour is down to the individual . |
| 13 | The fishermen 's quarter is down by the quayside , along with some of the best seafood restaurants . |
| 14 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
| 15 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 16 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 17 | ‘ Southampton were down at the bottom , but they rolled up their sleeves , put a run together and that 's what we now have to do . |
| 18 | He says much of his success is down to the backroom boys . |
| 19 | PERHAPS THE SHAMEN 'S SUCCESS is down to the fact that , even more than in their indie dance days , they are a bundle of productive contradictions . |
| 20 | Er , once the , the man was down on the floor er he placed his hands into the small of his back . |
| 21 | The blind was down at the window . |
| 22 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 23 | 1After the first few days , when I come into the room , Birdie is down on the floor of the cage , running back and forth , looking out over the barrier that holds in the gravel . |
| 24 | The apparent discrepancy is down to the way IDC defines the workstation market . |
| 25 | Overall , the number of postive tests was down across the region , but campaigners and the police say the figures are still not low enough . |
| 26 | Their favourite walk was down across the waste ground along Deptford Creek . |
| 27 | Much of the performance of Windows on any PC is down to the compatibility of the hardware with the operating system , and Windows itself . |
| 28 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 29 | Could you tell me whether the problem is down to the type of speakers employed — maybe producing too soft a sound wave with little strength of travel — and whether I would get better projection through a standard model 1960 Marshall cabinet rated at 300 watts RMS ? |
| 30 | my mailing system was down over the weekend and I did not receive any mail . |