Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] the [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lift my head up and look down to the floor at the foot of the bed , where Andy is lying curled up in his sleeping bag , unseen in the shadows , which is why I was being quiet . |
| 2 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 3 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 4 | " Then go down to the laundry at once and tell her I require her here in my room . " |
| 5 | Nowadays , Saint-Jean deals chiefly in the large if unappetizing tuna and the extremely appetizing but , compared with the whale , somewhat trivial catch , of anchovies ; but it is a town that smells very satisfactorily of brine and can be loud with the engines of trawlers if you go down to the harbour at the right moment . |
| 6 | Do n't you … no , I rarely go down into the town at the weekends . |
| 7 | We bore down on the landmark at a steady six to seven knots under a single genoa , the 15 – 20 knot wind on our port quarter with 10 – 12ft ( 3 – 4m ) steep-sided swells barrelling up astern and sweeping past . |