Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 2 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 3 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
| 4 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
| 5 | A nail-biter that will have you chewing down to the second knuckle . |
| 6 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 7 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 8 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |
| 9 | As long as they come down in the next twenty minutes ! |
| 10 | So that they float down to the next district and you do n't have to report them ? ’ |
| 11 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 12 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
| 13 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
| 14 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 15 | He sat down on the next stool . |
| 16 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |