Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prevent this from running down on-to the rest of the body and the swaddling clothes , it was immediately covered by a narrow linen band known as the ‘ chrysom ’ ; and it was the custom , should a child die before it was one month old , that this chrysom was used as the head-covering to the funerary swaddling . |
| 2 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 3 | ‘ We guessed , ’ said Faye , ‘ when you were more concerned about getting down to the blood bank than about thrashing through my prognosis with Dr Greene . ’ |
| 4 | The next steps will be concerned with getting down to the details of research itself , and emphasis will be placed on problems of field research . |
| 5 | If my theorising is correct , then the " Cenomanian transgression " was in part due to wearing down of the Hercynian and perhaps later ranges ( as in the western United States ) together with marginal sedimentation . |
| 6 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |
| 7 | Since then the story in Europe has been essentially one of settling down after the storm . |
| 8 | Now when you went in you were carrying out a plan with you very close behind going down to the bedroom . |
| 9 | Right erm regarding being a Lancastrian I think the er the main for coming down to the south is probably where you are today , I mean , cricket is the great game that we all follow here |