Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangerous stinging tentacles hang down below the float . |
| 2 | When the dun evening comes the kids go down to the irrigation channels for some bilharzia bathing . |
| 3 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
| 4 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
| 5 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 6 | Catarrhs travel down to the larynx and hoarseness , to the trachea with burning worse ( < ) for coughing and to the chest with constriction and a cough . |
| 7 | Magnificent Georgian houses are clustered together while their large and colourful gardens sweep down to the river . |
| 8 | THE INSPIRALS move down to the Harbour area and sit on a green patch with the sun beating down like it can rarely do in Oldham . |
| 9 | Bones bore down on the obstacle and Hoomey shut his eyes . |
| 10 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 11 | The new margins extend down to the division mark . |
| 12 | It is said to be an overcoat warmer in the valley , but shelter from the north is no compensation for the deep-freeze effect as the frosts drain down to the river . |
| 13 | Efficiency will also improve as prices and costs move down under the pressure exerted by more competitive markets . |
| 14 | Providing that the forms get down to the computer in London on time |
| 15 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 16 | I mean what what sort of things happen down on the ground ground level ? |
| 17 | Further important subsurface information comes from the several boreholes put down in the search for coal by the Department of Commerce on the advice of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | One wonders whether he observed this on his visits to Hailing as the houses of the villagers spread down to the river near the Palace , an ideal place for the collecting of rushes . |
| 19 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 20 | Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’ |
| 21 | Trees guard the house from the east winds ; meadows slope down to the water . |
| 22 | Stairs lead down to the bar area . |
| 23 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 24 | Many parents and teachers back down in the face of a massive tantrum . |
| 25 | Later , the processes slow down with the shift to increased differentiation with a rapid fall in mitotic index in both embryo and fetal membranes after day 14 , thus it becomes difficult to obtain chromosome preparations from the later stages , particularly shortly preceding birth . |
| 26 | Hanging vines drip down into the canyon which resounds with the sounds of frogs and birds and the sweet smell of Madonna lilies . |
| 27 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 28 | It forms when chlorine-containing compounds such as CFCs break down in the stratosphere and then it triggers photochemical chain reactions that can destroy as many as 100000 molecules of ozone per molecule of ClO . |
| 29 | Two children climb down into the hole ( having first borrowed a rope ladder ! ) and try to talk to the creature . |
| 30 | The children lie down on the floor and they have to stay absolutely still . |