Example sentences of "[vb past] down [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 2 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 3 | looking in one direction you might imagine yourself in Greenland ; another , and you gazed down upon a nest of' mill chimneys . |
| 4 | He sank down into a chair opposite Hari . |
| 5 | There was n't anything I could do and , knowing that , I was conscious of my own inadequacy , weighed down by a sense of helplessness . |
| 6 | In gale force winds , and weighed down by a camera around her neck , she just missed bringing us back a prize but she managed to capture some winning shots . |
| 7 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 8 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 9 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 10 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 11 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 12 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 13 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 14 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 15 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 16 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 17 | The brittle autumn leaves , shaken by the rush of air , flurried down like a shower of charred paper over the roof and the bright green of the grass . |
| 18 | Norman Askew , 59 , of Victoria Avenue , Redcar , knocked down by a car near St.Bede 's School , Marske on Monday has since died in hospital from the head injuries he received in the accident . |
| 19 | The rope hung down in a corner of the room on the right-hand side of the fireplace . |
| 20 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 21 | After a time I settled down into a routine of work , sleep and having a good time — and not necessarily in that order . |
| 22 | I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight , and settled down for a couple of hours sleep . |
| 23 | Settled down with a cup of tea Robert explained how easy it was to roam the databases of Britain collecting details of people 's private lives . |
| 24 | They settled down to a discussion of their problems , and the work they had in front of them . |
| 25 | Following this resolution the delegates settled down to a paper by Professor Charles Kerney from Indiana ( Vice-president of the American Association of the Deaf ) which was read by A M Sleight ( the President 's son and headmaster of the Brighton Institute in succession to his grandfather ) and interpreted to the deaf by J W Dawson . |
| 26 | Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off . |
| 27 | Sometimes it shrivelled into itself like water splashing on hot stones , then flared out again as its owner shrank down in a spasm of coughing and straightened up again . |
| 28 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 29 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 30 | She reached her mother 's in nearby Northumberland Street and broke down in a state of shock . |