Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reply Robyn ran her hands instinctively across his chest , down and down to the waist of his jeans , further to his inner thigh , to the place where his need was strongest . |
| 2 | This presentation would have benefited from being delivered out to the audience , rather than down to the lectern , and he should practise opening his mouth wider when talking — he was sometimes difficult to follow . |
| 3 | You know rather than down to the line planning for every single moment of the day . |
| 4 | They burnt Brighton in 1544 , forcing the settlement to grow finally upon the cliffs rather than down on the beach , threatened by the French and ‘ Neptune 's insatiate womb ’ . |
| 5 | She swam away and down to the ocean bed with him , laughing . |
| 6 | Cut away and down behind the bud in a gentle curve . |
| 7 | A trail of slow-moving headlights slides away and down from the arena like oozing lava snaking away from Mother . |
| 8 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 9 | it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ; |
| 10 | Rather , the carrier frequency swoops up or down about an octave . |
| 11 | In windy weather , the effects of the wind gradient near the ground accentuate any movement up or down of the towplane and glider . |
| 12 | How many times have you seen a horse with his head tied in with draw reins at a show and as soon as the gadget is removed his head shoots up or down in an effort to stretch the neck . |
| 13 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 14 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 15 | And , anyway , I only cruised up and down outside the house twice just to make sure there was no one lying in wait . |
| 16 | The cockerel stood braced , shrilling its cry out into the mist , answering other calls from other compounds up and down across the hillside . |
| 17 | He dipped the headlights and the far end of the tunnel seemed to leap towards us , bouncing up and down to the thump of our tyres on the sleepers . |
| 18 | His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid . |
| 19 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 20 | It was working perfectly back in Manchester , when you had it going up and down at the traffic lights to impress those schoolgirls . ’ |
| 21 | The clothes were boiled in a copper over a wood fire , rubbed up and down on a wash board , then squeezed through a hand-turned mangle . |
| 22 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 23 | Physically they are amazing , you can jump up and down on a cockroach , and they still get up and walk away . |
| 24 | Off home to jump up and down on a picture of Long John Silver . |
| 25 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 26 | There 's these springy sort of things bouncing up and down on a string like they 're alive . |
| 27 | Spence later caused £681 worth of damage when he jumped up and down on an Escort . |
| 28 | The player relies on his feel for putting , and all that bobbing up and down on the green , as if in supplication , is really only confirmation of what the player is reading as the borrow anyway . |
| 29 | Inching one eyelid open , Laura saw that Sophie — or was it Emma ? — was now happily bouncing up and down on the mattress beside her . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |