Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 2 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 3 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 4 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 5 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 6 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 7 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 8 | Two days later the sea had settled down after the prolonged gale and we headed north once more through the rock strewn channels and islands . |
| 9 | The above indicates that there is far more to negotiating than sitting down opposite the other party and trying to bargain . |
| 10 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 11 | Pressures towards manpower production meant in effect , that demands from higher levels of the education system fed down towards the primary curriculum and there was a certain rather questionable pyramid philosophy built on the premise that ‘ many are called but few are chosen ’ . |
| 12 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 13 | We looked back and up , and for a moment the Towers ' summits were flecked with gold , before the sun slid down behind the unseen horizon and all Chile was plunged into blackness . |
| 14 | That was a case , I worked in a hotel for years and years and it closed down with the new bypass and that , and just a girl beside me , she was coming for an interview , to the B M K and I came with her . |
| 15 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 16 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 17 | Wycliffe stepped down into the little hall and pushed open the door of the shop itself . |
| 18 | Arranging the pillows against the padded head-rest , she slid down into the soft cocoon and , lying flat on her back , gazed up at the deckhead . |
| 19 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 20 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 21 | He lay down under the single sheet and closed his eyes . |
| 22 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 23 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 24 | We could get a limousine at the Beverley Hills hotel but you could n't get a taxi , so everyone learned how to call down from the front desk and order whatever they needed out of necessity . |
| 25 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 26 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 27 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
| 28 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 29 | Schaffer stepped down from the railed entranceway and watched them going . |
| 30 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |