Example sentences of "[coord] down [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a modern diaphragm valve , it may only be necessary to move the float up or down on the serrated spindle connected to the valve arm |
| 2 | And er wash the cups and And he used to have to go running er down with messages down to or down to the head office rather that we had an office in where where our fitting shop was where there was a draughtsman 's office . |
| 3 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 4 | We slipped and slithered out of the stable courtyard where horses moved and snickered , past the Templar church and down to the gleaming lakeside . |
| 5 | He took the letter and the envelope out of his office and down to the abandoned area at the end of the corridor . |
| 6 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
| 7 | From the North Sea and Baltic coasts through the North German Plain and down to the Black Forest and Alps , Germany has a wealth of contrasting scenic beauty . |
| 8 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 9 | Hunger then tended to strike , forcing them out of that sinful bed , and down to the sunlit kitchen to make breakfast of fruit and coffee and rolls . |
| 10 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 11 | As kiss followed riotous kiss , his fingertips trailed along the smooth column of her throat and down to the silky fabric of her dress . |
| 12 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 13 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 14 | Corbett nodded and followed both the envoy and his strange companion out of the room and down to the main hall of the castle . |
| 15 | The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids . |
| 16 | It was surely going to be a doddle , taking up the slabs , using part of the profile of the old pond to define the layout of the new , then some easy digging , smoothing , measuring and down to the aquatic shop for a liner . |
| 17 | It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano . |
| 18 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 19 | A sole unit that blended good adhesion both uphill and down with the shock-absorbing characteristics of the chamfered heel of the K-SB3 was Berghaus 's Trionic , which appeared in late 1983 . |
| 20 | and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or |
| 21 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |
| 22 | A tiny , rotund figure was stamping up and down on the daubed green of the false ground , like a drunken redneck at a hoedown , or an aboriginal at a corroboree . |
| 23 | Street upon street of small Chinese shopfront , a Manhattan-like skyline and junks bobbing up and down on the busy harbour from indelible images of this British colony . |
| 24 | And down on the previous year ? |
| 25 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 26 | The multitude then filed past the Opera House and down towards the central station . |
| 27 | They moved stealthily , the switches in their hands grasped like weapons through the rank smell of wild rhubarb and down towards the damp growth by the stream . |
| 28 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 29 | He drove her to the very edge of ecstasy and then , as the quivering tide of sensation gathered momentum , he tipped her over and down into the fiery vortex . |
| 30 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |