Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 2 | It 's an Italian design and is the only one we could find that folds down into a little square shape . |
| 3 | A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows . |
| 4 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 5 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 6 | Manure : Cow or horse manure can be composted and breaks down into an inoffensive material that is used as a compost base by a number of manufacturers . |
| 7 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 8 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 9 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 10 | Mineralisation in northern Snowdonia occurs mainly as small veins near the contact of the Ordovician Lower Rhyolitic Tuff Formation and the overlying basic Bedded Pyroclastic Formation but extends down to the underlying sediments . |