Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 2 | As informational flows become less structured , so the water-tight internal divisions of institutions break down into a plethora of working parties and task groups with constantly shifting personnel . |
| 3 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |
| 4 | The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him . |
| 5 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 6 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 7 | There are many lessons to be learnt from accounts of buildings knocked down with no care for wall paintings and historic artifacts , and certainly no interest in their architectural importance . |
| 8 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
| 9 | Several nearby windows came up and a number of guns flew down into the street . |
| 10 | Written excavation records once consisted of observations written down in a notebook , but nowadays most archaeologists use printed forms , or even a series of forms , which are filled in to record the evidence not covered by the drawn and photographic records . |
| 11 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 12 | I mean what what sort of things happen down on the ground ground level ? |
| 13 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 14 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 15 | I leant against a chestnut , one of a bib of trees leading down to the Wild Garden . |
| 16 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 17 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 18 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 19 | An apparently apocryphal account is of two Prussian medical officers , Fritsch and Hitzig , who In 1870 took advantage of the opportunity offered by the Franco-Prussian War to study the exposed brains of soldiers struck down on the battlefield . " |
| 20 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |
| 21 | A pair of swans drifted down towards the town centre . |