Example sentences of "may [vb infin] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 2 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 3 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 4 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 5 | Nowadays the attitude seems totally the opposite ; the modern-day prop appears to say : ‘ I may go down in the scrummage , but I will never go back ’ . |
| 6 | In other words , the differences between the two may come down to the fact that one is a linguist interested in grammar , while the other is a psychologist interested in the functional relations between language and the immediate context . |
| 7 | They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend . |