Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 2 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 3 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 4 | The engine backs down upon a few trucks , perhaps a single one ; there is a quick manipulation of a coupling stick , and the engine draws off with its insignificant load . |
| 5 | The slope of a hill stretches down to the playing fields . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the church , note the direction of route which proceeds down between the two lakes and then keeps half left towards a barn and which is to left of and below distant tower of Preston Capes church . |
| 8 | Two hundred miles from land the fierce Amazon river stained the dark water darker , red with the silt it carries down from the secret jungles and mountains of the New World . |