Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 2 | The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car . |
| 3 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 4 | And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit |
| 5 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 6 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 7 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 8 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 9 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 10 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 11 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 12 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 13 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 14 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 15 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 16 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 17 | but it rolls along the gutter and it drops down through the grating of a drain . |
| 18 | A rod or tube , which drops down from the retainer on the kiteline , engages a spindle on the main frame and is locked by a wire split pin . |
| 19 | The road drops down from the col into the valley with an exhilarating suddenness and you are then in Arreau . |
| 20 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 21 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 22 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
| 23 | Entering Biarritz by the coast road like this , you end by driving along the Avenue Édouard VII , which leads down into the centre of the town and sets the tone for a resort that was for a while Europe 's princeliest . |
| 24 | The gun hangs down below the hem of her skirt . |
| 25 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 26 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 27 | The book very quickly gets down to the paddling with a token section at the source of the river . |
| 28 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 29 | Although , therefore , Dicey 's sharp distinction between the application and interpretation of statute suffices for most practical purposes , it ultimately breaks down in the face of changing views of the contours of the political community or of serious threats to the central tenets of liberal democracy . |
| 30 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |