Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 3 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 4 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 5 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 6 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 7 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 8 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 9 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 10 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 11 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 12 | For example , an elder ( like the rest of us ) will get up , go to the toilet , go through familiar washing routines , make tea , collect the paper from the front door , and perhaps walk down to the shops or catch the bus into town , with competence and efficiency . |
| 13 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 14 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 15 | Afterwards , she felt very much let down by the family 's decision , saying she would have preferred to die rather than live in such a disabled condition . |
| 16 | Here the eye is naturally drawn down to the urn at the end of the vista . |
| 17 | The poll tax is quite rightly played down by the Tories , but what has this debacle cost the nation ? |
| 18 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 19 | Do n't get so bogged down in the trivia of life you have n't the time or inclination to branch out and see what 's on offer . |
| 20 | She is so slowed down by the dope slamming fifty visions of hell at her a second that she finds it hard to fight , hard to believe in her own anger , hard to believe in what she 's doing . |
| 21 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 22 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 23 | ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’ |
| 24 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 25 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 26 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 27 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 29 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 30 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |