Example sentences of "and [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 2 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 3 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 4 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 5 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 6 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 7 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 8 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 9 | ‘ Come and sit down in the bar , ’ says Mrs Bixman . |
| 10 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 11 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 12 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 13 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 14 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 15 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 16 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 17 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 18 | Then she opened the bedroom door and crept down through the dark , silent house . |
| 19 | Her tracksuit and flying jacket dragged on the ground as she slid and bumped down into the blackness . |
| 20 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 21 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 22 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 23 | They gathered their possessions and moved down to the cold , deserted taproom . |
| 24 | The crowd parted and an English doctor stepped over the warning wire and knelt down beside the man . |
| 25 | He decided to listen to their conversation , and knelt down outside the tent , making a little hole with his knife in the heavy cotton so that he could see the two people inside . |
| 26 | Then he went quiet and knelt down by the redhead . |
| 27 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 28 | So I get up and pull my dressing-gown on and head down to the cold , dusty lobby where the phone is . |
| 29 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 30 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |