Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 2 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 3 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 4 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 5 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 6 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 7 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 8 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 9 | ‘ Or you could have kept down on the platform , ’ Ace added . |
| 10 | Andrew says he 's fitter than last year but doesn.t know if he can beat his wife Sarah who says she thinks her husband might get bogged down in the mud |