Example sentences of "you [vb base] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 2 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 3 | It actually comes down to then , a more local area could be eighteen to twenty into Harlow , and then as you break down into the other figures , that then comes into a road and a postcode will actually go down to about fifteen houses in total , by putting your door number at the end of it , it makes it identifiable to your premises . |
| 4 | From the terrace beside the chapel you look down on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 5 | Knights come first , then come DBEs , then come CBEs and so on and so forth , until you get down to the lowest award , which I think is the British Empire Medal . |
| 6 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
| 7 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 8 | Yeah , well I mean , that 's a , that 's a difficult one , inside information , when you get down below the top ranks there are lots of people in the mid mi medium-ranks who would know about insider dealing , and I 'm sure use it . |
| 9 | erm Now , there 's a very nice one , if you move down to the single stroke , you see there are two 2s written , and below that there 's a single stroke . |