Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat .
2 It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door .
3 After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee .
4 I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor .
5 I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears .
6 By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders .
7 I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’
8 He had sighed , rubbed his hands together and sat down on a kitchen chair .
9 In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed .
10 In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe .
11 If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal .
12 There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups .
13 It was natural that reformers should attack latifundia , where the under-utilization of the land and the pressure of population were obvious , rather than settle down to the complicated legal technicalities involved in the consolidation of vast numbers of dispersed strips .
14 But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes .
15 He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules .
16 After a few moments she could stand it no longer , and with an effort she wrenched her gaze away and looked down at the carpet .
17 He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth .
18 With a tired little toss of the head , she turned away and sat down in an armchair , motioning for Golding to do the same .
19 He got up as Leo walked across the lawn outside and smiled down at the trio in the swing-seat .
20 Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot .
21 Lancaster breathed out slowly and looked down at the table when he realised what he had said .
22 Go along this for about 50 yards , then turn off right and drop down towards the wall and then towards a big double metal gate ahead .
23 Carefully he swung the grill aside and climbed down into the darkened corridor .
24 You 're looking very weary now , do you need to go home and lie down for a bit ?
25 One January morning , the captain got up early and walked down to the beach .
26 Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac .
27 Draws near and flops down on the seat .
28 Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies .
29 The blades caught , sparked wildly and crashed down on a head just showing through the welter of foam round their legs , knocking it under again .
30 He unpacked and put everything away immediately and strolled down to the canal .
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