Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 2 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 3 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 4 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 6 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 7 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 8 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 9 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 10 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 11 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 12 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 13 | I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears . |
| 14 | By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders . |
| 15 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 16 | He had sighed , rubbed his hands together and sat down on a kitchen chair . |
| 17 | In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed . |
| 18 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 19 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 20 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 21 | It was natural that reformers should attack latifundia , where the under-utilization of the land and the pressure of population were obvious , rather than settle down to the complicated legal technicalities involved in the consolidation of vast numbers of dispersed strips . |
| 22 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 23 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 24 | After a few moments she could stand it no longer , and with an effort she wrenched her gaze away and looked down at the carpet . |
| 25 | He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth . |
| 26 | With a tired little toss of the head , she turned away and sat down in an armchair , motioning for Golding to do the same . |
| 27 | Northern prop Roy Powell 's attempt to kick the ball dead miscued , allowing Ropati to dash through and touch down beneath the posts . |
| 28 | Someone kicked his washing-bag over and stared down at the spilled shirt sleeve , the maroon-edged handkerchief . |
| 29 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 30 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |