Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine
2 In the later seventeenth century a French duke turned it down on the grounds that his father , by holding it , had accumulated debts of 200,000 livres .
3 He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother .
4 Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest .
5 The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard .
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