Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 2 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 3 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 4 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 5 | There are arguments in favour of analysing costs down to the individual patient . |
| 6 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 7 | These plate margins are of three types : ( 1 ) divergent , where crustal material moves apart , under the oceans by a process known as sea-floor spreading ; ( 2 ) convergent , where one plate plunges down into the underlying mantle ( also known as subduction zones ) ; ( 3 ) transform faults , where one plate slides laterally with respect to its neighbour , crust being here neither created ( 1 ) nor destroyed ( 2 ) ( Fig. 18.1 ) . |
| 8 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 9 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 10 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 11 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 12 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 13 | Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons . |
| 14 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 15 | The slope of a hill stretches down to the playing fields . |
| 16 | Well he jumps down into the fucking lift shaft and he slipped on i oh eh well you fucking bastard you ! |
| 17 | The biggest influence on this behaviour has probably been the large increase in wealth , which in turn boils down to the sharp rise in house prices . |
| 18 | ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties . |
| 19 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 20 | He normally parks down by the old A A. |
| 21 | But I should think knowing he 'll know what 's it like , he normally parks down by the old A A |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |
| 24 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 27 | Come August , when the action is beamed back from Barcelona , they might just recognise that man who works down at the local track . |