Example sentences of "[to-vb] down a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 2 | to level down a fault in the ocean floor . |
| 3 | The President would lose the right to put down a motion for the government 's dismissal . |
| 4 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 5 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 6 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |