Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 2 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 3 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |
| 4 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 5 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 6 | I think Shel 's got down to the beginning again ! |
| 7 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 8 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 9 | I 'm only looking , I have n't even got down to the thing yet . |
| 10 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 11 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 12 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 13 | Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments . |
| 14 | It follows that , in the majority of trees , the new cellulose is laid down in the cell already containing the stresses and strains which it has to bear . |
| 15 | Ace 's finger remained clamped down on the trigger even after all seven bullets had gone and the slide had locked back in the ‘ empty ’ position . |
| 16 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 17 | You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now |
| 18 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the Abbe Gerard apparently drowned after drinking claret which was undoubtedly sent to him by Dacourt , though taken down to the village probably by his secretary , Master Millet . |
| 20 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 21 | I splashed water over my face , slicked unruly grey hair into a more reasonable disorder , and headed down to the lobby again . |
| 22 | She shrieked when he went near her with the scissors , and had to be held down by the nurse so that he could take off about twelve inches of her golden curls . |
| 23 | But according to Chris Cowdrey , who made his England debut in Bombay in November 1984 just 48 hours after British High Commissioner Percy Norris had been gunned down in the streets nearby , tight security could suffocate the England players . |