Example sentences of "[vb infin] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 2 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 3 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 4 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 5 | You know , when you go straight there , and sometimes you get it , it 's not constructive , you know , but if I 'm getting jumped on , I tend to perhaps jump , jump down on the people below me . |
| 6 | However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small . |
| 7 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 8 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 9 | We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’ |
| 10 | From here I found , as I had hoped , that I could see down to the shore at the point where Neil had told me he wanted to work . |
| 11 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |
| 12 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 13 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 14 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 15 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 16 | Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her . |
| 17 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 18 | I I do n't know whether M A F F would object , but they did lay down for the selection of their site . |
| 19 | It considered that if the Community 's system of quotas in its present form allowed member states to introduce certain requirements whose compatibility with Community law could only be justified by the necessity to attain the objectives of that system , then such requirements could only be incorporated into the quota licences or other quota management measures which the United Kingdom must lay down for the management of its quotas under article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , and not be imposed as conditions for the registration of vessels . |
| 20 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 21 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 22 | Or ‘ Why do n't you go and lay down in the middle of Piccadilly Circus ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well I know Bon said er they 'd they 'd cut down on the recruiting in fact , I think they 'd closed one of the hospitals in Bristol in the Frenchay where she is has actually got to take erm qualified nurses from that hospital before they take student nurses that they 've trained |
| 25 | This would cut down on the number of naps , foists and pickpockets who plagued these places like the locusts of Egypt . |
| 26 | Do cut down on the use of heated appliances if you can and always use a diffuser attachment on your hairdryer . |
| 27 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 28 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 29 | Then you will ride down in the cage to the bottom of the shaft — 294 feet deep . |
| 30 | Cold may also go down onto the chest with lots of secretions , coughing and rattling of mucus . |