Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 2 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 3 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 4 | You do n't want to go down to the slides yet ? |
| 5 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |
| 6 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 7 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 8 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 9 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 10 | The new station , consisting of the by then classic steel , concrete , and glass concourse with facilities around its outer flanks and with steps and ramps leading down to the platforms below , gave a new twist to the separation of passengers and baggage regarded as an ideal at so many American stations . |
| 11 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 12 | Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog . |
| 13 | ‘ Going down to the Hogans again are you ? ’ she said , sounding slightly put out . |
| 14 | Oh well I 'll have to try , try keep going down to the courses down to Toshiba . |
| 15 | The opinions are printed and handed down to the parties rather than being read aloud . |
| 16 | After Kensaleyre , this beautiful road , a territory of hawks , runs by Loch Snizort Beag , and from the calm grassy uplands , well-to-do houses look down on the waters where the opportunities for boats seem infinite . |
| 17 | Get down to the shops now for the bargain of the century ! 99% |
| 18 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 19 | Hob and Jack said goodbye and went down to the boats too . |
| 20 | Fell from a second-floor window smack down on the flagstones not a yard from where you 're standing . |
| 21 | This was because , when her long beautiful legs were high in the air , her yellow garter flew off and fell down to the men below . |
| 22 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 23 | She looked down through the wards where the festive celebrations had momentarily stopped . |
| 24 | At the top of the hill , they looked down at the fields below . |
| 25 | Miranda looked down at the stones below . |
| 26 | Hey — go down to the woods today and you 're sure of a fairly stupendous surprise . |
| 27 | If you go down to the woods today , make sure it 's not the Forest Of Dean . |
| 28 | But if you go down to the woods today you wo n't get a big surprise , because as boars have a tendency to charge at people they 're being kept in by an electric fence . |
| 29 | If you go down to the woods today , prepare for a big surprise . |
| 30 | If you go down to the woods today |