Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 2 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 3 | Going down to the next layer , each of these moves consists of specified acts , as in Figure 6 . |
| 4 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 5 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 6 | A nail-biter that will have you chewing down to the second knuckle . |
| 7 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 8 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |