Example sentences of "it [vb -s] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 9 | but it rolls along the gutter and it drops down through the grating of a drain . |
| 10 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | " It cuts down on the drama , no ? |
| 15 | It 's okay in cold water , but when you heat it up it breaks down into the carbonate , C A C O three . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It lays down in the middle of the road ! |
| 18 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 19 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 20 | Again , it comes down to the concept of institutionalisation and the harmful effects on mentally handicapped people living with large numbers of other handicapped people as opposed to integrating freely with the community at large . |
| 21 | It comes down to the clowning , the pratfalls , the catcalls , |
| 22 | So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil . |