Example sentences of "[adv] down [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed her gently down on to the settee and sat so close to her that she could hardly breathe for fear that she 'd betray how much she wanted him . |
| 2 | The plane slipped easily down out of the night sky on to the Doha runway . |
| 3 | Once down out of the wind , the weather was bearable again and we could enjoy the intriguing glen pitted with the ruins of ancient shielings either side of the Allt a' Chobhair . |
| 4 | And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’ |
| 5 | Come straight down on to the concrete floor . |
| 6 | In the Technosyn equipment , the gun is arranged so that the beam fires obliquely down on to the specimen ( Fig. 6.2 ) and these magnets are not needed . |
| 7 | She threw herself angrily down on to the bed , furious at the predicament into which Jason had pitchforked her . |
| 8 | The voices and the song washed dimly down out of the night , through the pine-forest , over the house and out to sea . |
| 9 | Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale . |
| 10 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 11 | The final stage is to cover the inked hardboard with a sheet of paper and press firmly down on to the board to transfer the ink marks to the paper . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's about all I am intending to keep on ! ’ he told her with a husky , sensual bark of laughter that left her breathless and quivering in his arms as he entered the room and tossed her lightly down on to the bed . |
| 13 | It was a very tricky operation to get the barrels safely down on to the road , up onto and across the pavement to the lift . |
| 14 | All went well and the 600 tonne roof was lowered safely down on to the reactor . |