Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
| 2 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 3 | I put my glass down on the nearest table and made my way out of the room . |
| 4 | I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance . |
| 5 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 6 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 7 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 8 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 9 | She had let her guard down to an enormous extent and the idea of going back to her old life was actually frightening . |
| 10 | Robyn sat on the bed and tipped two tablets into the palm of her hand , resisting the need to lay her head down on the cool pillow . |
| 11 | Suddenly she wanted to put her head down on the big table and howl with misery . |
| 12 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 13 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 14 | Moving out of the path of the crowd , she put her luggage down on the uneven pavement and looked around . |
| 15 | Loyal to their oath down to the last breath , the 6th Army , under the exemplary leadership of General Field Marshal Paulus , succumbed to the superior force of the enemy and the unfavourable conditions . |
| 16 | Kate puts her suitcase down on a green plastic-covered pouffe and gapes . |
| 17 | This applies notably to cowrie shells which partly for this reason have maintained their status down to the ethnographic present in many parts of the world . |
| 18 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 19 | Having been trapped , and being so heavy , it will work its way down to the absolute bottom of wherever it is caught . |
| 20 | There are two cottages here above the beck which passes the church on its way down to the old woollen mill . |
| 21 | When a wind-blown spore — which now can be called pollen — lands on an egg-bearing cone , it germinates , not into a filmy thallus for which there is now no need , but into a long tube which burrows its way down into the female cone . |
| 22 | By measuring the scattering of X-rays by hirudin , when linked to a key blood coagulation factor called thrombin , his team deduced its structure down to the last atom . |
| 23 | Stung by his cool sarcasm , suddenly acutely embarrassed by her spurned show of emotion , she put her coffee-cup down with a sharp click and started gathering her bags , preparing to leave . |
| 24 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 25 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 26 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 27 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 28 | With the Sky Blues set to overtake the Canaries if they win at Highfield Road , Gould took his team down to the local for pint of two of Guinness ! |
| 29 | So we have got his name down at a few schools |
| 30 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |