Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 2 | When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out . |
| 3 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 4 | Rub down of the port intake area was underway when this shot was taken . |
| 5 | Next remove all the old putty from both parts of the joint and give the metal surfaces a good rub down with a wire brush and , if necessary , abrasive paper before applying two coats of bitumastic paint . |
| 6 | Before starting the repair , remove all debris and loose rust and rub down with a wire brush and abrasive paper |
| 7 | From this vantage you peer down into the crater lake , its surface green with the fresh growth of ‘ totora ’ , a reed otherwise known only in the Andes . |
| 8 | P. P. Sometimes , when we were going in at night , when it was wet , we would try and put a mac on and slip down to A Division parade room — hang the mac up quick and dive into your coat . |
| 9 | Nip down to the Marriage Guidance Council ? |
| 10 | Now if you nip down to the Victoria Hospital , if you know where that is in Mansfield ? |
| 11 | " Just nip down to the dining room and put the tiniest whisky , only up to here , " she held three of Nicandra 's fingers against the glass , rolling empty on the eiderdown " very nice , too . |
| 12 | But this good control , plus the fine grip and limited body roll , are badly let down in the driver appeal stakes by the steering . |
| 13 | A group of sports fans are claiming they were overcharged and let down by a tour operator who sold them tickets to the Olympic Games . |
| 14 | and you dive down to the post box and pushes it in . |
| 15 | In order to further speed and cheapen the process , inferior ingredients such as maize , rice , triticale , wheat flour and potato starch are used and helped on their way by chemicals that hasten fermentation , cut down on the yeast head in the vessels to allow more wort to be treated , and to give a lively fake head to the finished product . |
| 16 | If you ever break down on a country road at 2 a.m. , you will truly understand the meaning of the word ‘ alone ’ . |
| 17 | The new margins extend down to the division mark . |
| 18 | I mean what what sort of things happen down on the ground ground level ? |
| 19 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 20 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
| 21 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 22 | Photographs may be prepared by placing negative sheets or printing papers face down on the glass viewing plate . |
| 23 | The rock slice is placed face down in a polythene tray into 30% HF solution for 3 or 4 min . |
| 24 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 25 | ‘ He was floating face down in the carp pond ! ’ |
| 26 | A simple to load paper tray is also situated at the front for easy access and the printed copy emerges face down from the paper path on the top of the machine . |
| 27 | A simple to load paper tray is also situated at the front for easy access and the printed copy emerges face down from the paper path on the top of the machine . |
| 28 | She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park . |
| 29 | As Turnbull 's number was pressed-out in London the group of numbers , converted into digital pulses , sped on their way to Sydney via Mondial House , the British Telecom international switching centre in London , to the Post Office tower and west across Britain via the main microwave link down to the earth satellite station at Goonhilly in Cornwall . |
| 30 | The Doctor , Ian , Susan and Carol travel down to the Sense-Sphere capital , with John , whom the Sensorites have offered to cure , to meet the rulers and to try and negotiate a settlement of their differences . |