Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 2 | The Castle was faintly lit by the soft light of the moon , and Grainne , pausing to look down over the courtyard through a small side window , saw how the countryside was bathed in radiance . |
| 3 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |
| 4 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 6 | I have n't enjoyed the last two years down there , but erm as I say , let's stick our necks out and say ‘ United are going to win down at the County ground ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm going to walk down to the hotel on the other side of the bay and see if they 've got any rooms free — ’ |
| 8 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 9 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |
| 10 | The other is holding a grey Government-issue ballpoint above the label on the cover , as motionless as a lizard , waiting to strike down into the space next to the word Subject . |
| 11 | Gazing idly over the rolling green lawns , she watched the red glow of the sun , slowly beginning to sink down over the horizon . |
| 12 | So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water . |
| 13 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 14 | Their television colleagues were more patrician , only occasionally deigning to nod down at the page and scribble the time of an important section of Blanche 's statement . |
| 15 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 16 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 18 | I hate having to sit down in the toilet all the time . |
| 19 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 20 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 21 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
| 22 | The options are a high ladder on the right side of the lock , a point where the stone wall has been damaged ( presumably by a vessel failing to slow down at the junction ) or a paddle up the River Aire to find a point where the bank is lower . |
| 23 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 24 | all that has had to be replaced because that was starting to drip down into the hall , again ! |
| 25 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 26 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 27 | What are you hoping to get down on the list this month ? |