Example sentences of "[adv] down on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 2 | Further down on the same side are the remains of Foxholes Side Lock , which served Foxholes Basin , now filled in. the banks hereabouts are in a poor state of repair and restoration has been in progress between here and the m62 Trans-Pennine Motorway bridge . |
| 3 | Even the way he looked at them was enough to assure her that they were way down on the social scale . |
| 4 | By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him . |
| 5 | Kiyonga said that gross domestic product ( GDP ) had grown by 6.8 per cent in 1989/90 , slightly down on the 1988/89 growth rate of 7.2 per cent . |
| 6 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 7 | Deals concluded in the first quarter averaged 4.3 per cent , slightly down on the earlier estimate of 4.5 per cent , but closer to the current four per cent inflation rate . |
| 8 | She preferred the additional wearisome walk , half an hour up and half an hour back down on the other side , to bothering one of these absorbed people . |
| 9 | Oh God we 're all back down on the bloody board now ! |
| 10 | Lying back down on the rumpled bed , she stretched luxuriously , then hooked her hands round the bed-head and stared up at the ceiling , a soft smile on her face . |
| 11 | A long linear fissure opened abruptly on 13 May , well down on the eastern slopes of the volcano , and at a height of only 1,800 metres . |
| 12 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was firmer against the dollar , closing at one dollar point nine five three five , but it closed fractionally down on the stronger Mark at two Deutschmarks point nine three three one . |
| 13 | Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water . |
| 14 | The mirror is then placed on top of the straight-edge ( or a thin timber batten ) and lined up with it , tapped lightly to ‘ spread the cut ’ , and broken by pressing firmly down on the two sides of the cut . |
| 15 | Simon McBurney brings a fidgety , sweaty intensity to the role of the troubled king , and in one superb scene he is discovered standing on top of a wardrobe , gazing miserably down on the happy innocents beneath him as his heart is gnawed by destructive jealousy . |
| 16 | The turnout in the election was just 50.72 per cent , considerably down on the previous record low of 57 per cent in the 1983 upper house contest , and suggested that rather than registering anti-LDP votes with an alternative party , many voters had chosen to abstain from the electoral process . |
| 17 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |