Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy .
2 ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies .
3 There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line .
4 Directors , whether of social services or in the voluntary field , are notoriously cautious in the light of committee opinion ; so are assistant directors and managers , and so on down the line .
5 To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body .
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