Example sentences of "it [verb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 3 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 4 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 5 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 6 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 7 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 8 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 9 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 10 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 11 | but it rolls along the gutter and it drops down through the grating of a drain . |
| 12 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 13 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 14 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 15 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 16 | It 's open grass with not much cover and it slopes down to the pond and the stream which bisect the two parts of the battle area . ’ |
| 17 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 18 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 19 | " It cuts down on the drama , no ? |
| 20 | You simply squeeze Colourfun Image Maker over a picture they like , place it face down on the garment and roll with a rolling pin . |
| 21 | To play , we each choose one of our cards and lay it face down on the table . |
| 22 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 23 | The man in white drags her body over the rock and lays it face down in the centre . |
| 24 | It 's okay in cold water , but when you heat it up it breaks down into the carbonate , C A C O three . |
| 25 | Roger Swansborough 's hand balled into a fist and he brought it slamming down onto the desk top so that loose paperclips jumped in the big crystal ashtray . |
| 26 | A helicopter was sent for him and shortly afterwards it clattered down on the tarmac , Bakhtiar , a thin , nervous but very elegant man who looked like a French aristocrat , with a trim moustache and superbly cut clothes , entered the pavilion and bowed before the king . |
| 27 | It would oscillate through the earth and back , until eventually it settled down at the center . |
| 28 | I think it boils down to the fact that it 's fairly economic to transport vast quantities of people but not to transport from the outer edges and the odd bits in the middle and there 's no way that they 're going to get a full and comprehensive service come what may . |
| 29 | Fernando had said and she had said , and really it boiled down to the misuse of the three most precious words in the universal language — I love you ! |
| 30 | It lays down in the middle of the road ! |