Example sentences of "could [vb infin] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 2 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 3 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 4 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 5 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 6 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 7 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 8 | From here I found , as I had hoped , that I could see down to the shore at the point where Neil had told me he wanted to work . |
| 9 | Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her . |
| 10 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 11 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 12 | She could go down into the town centre and look at the shops , have a cup of coffee somewhere , get back to her mother-in-law by four . |
| 13 | Then we could go down on the line and wave it , ’ said Peter . |
| 14 | Anybody else who 's coming up between twenty nine and thirty four , if you could come down to the rostrum colleagues . |
| 15 | Mentioned earlier , colleagues that erm , there are a number of motions , so if the movers and supporting speakers could come down to the rostrum , it would be er helpful . |
| 16 | And again colleagues , it would assist , er , if movers and seconders and supporting speakers and speakers who 're speaking on behalf of the regions , if they could come down to the front . |
| 17 | Priority in debate to Southern and Northern regions so if all the additional speakers could come down to the front , be very much obliged . |
| 18 | If speakers could come down to the front please Colleagues , settle now please . |
| 19 | I call Birmingham Region to move two three six and again colleagues , if supporting speakers could come down to the front it will assist . |
| 20 | Miss Monroe could come down in the morning and see her then . |
| 21 | If he could do this then surely he could come down from the cross and save himself . |
| 22 | He could drive down to The Randolph , and sort out that lying sod Ashenden ! |
| 23 | Now if we could get down to the sale of this house and the contents … ? |
| 24 | When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again . |
| 25 | No details were given to the National Union or to the constituencies involved , so much hard work had to be done and much recrimination endured before the party could settle down to the campaign . |
| 26 | She was very depressed , until they moved house , which gave her something to concentrate on , so she could settle down to the fact that she had retired . |
| 27 | Swathed in a thick towel , she emerged several minutes later from the bathroom , thinking that if she donned jeans and a pullover against the cooling night she could slip down into the garden and breathe some fresh air by the river . |
| 28 | The longer this persisted , the hotter the planet got , because energy from the Sun could penetrate down through the clouds but was incapable of escaping back out through them ( the famous ‘ greenhouse effect ’ ) . |
| 29 | cos Deana used to have a chair by the bunk so she could climb down onto the chair , shut up |