Example sentences of "down [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 2 | The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it . |
| 3 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 5 | The EC troika arrived in Zagreb on Aug. 2 but talks in Belgrade broke down after the third round on Aug. 4 which Milosevic boycotted . |
| 6 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 7 | ‘ The hotel has been condemned and is to be pulled down within the next couple of days . ’ |
| 8 | Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively . |
| 9 | Cologne , 2-0 down from the first leg in Belgrade , won through to the quarter-finals with two goals from Goetz , his equaliser coming seven minutes from time , and a last-minute winner from Ordenewitz . |
| 10 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 11 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 12 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 13 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 14 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 15 | Miss Fletcher was 0–2 , down in the first set before taking ten games in a row and going on to retain her title . |
| 16 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 17 | Even more significant , is the fall in underlying inflation — down in the last year from 5.5 per cent to 3.25 per cent . |
| 18 | He was 5-3 down in the fourth game against Peter Hill before winning 9-1 , 9-0 , 2-9 , 9-5 in a patchy , not to say puzzling , match . |
| 19 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 20 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 21 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 22 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 23 | This one is useful for moving from the 5th position down to the 2nd position in A minor . |
| 24 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 25 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 26 | Caroline discovered that Nicolo had not bought too much food , because they finished it all , right down to the last bit of crusty , delicious bread . |
| 27 | After that I replaced everything that may have become contaminated with metal toxins , down to the last grain of sand . |
| 28 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 29 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 30 | Volkov scoured the flat clean of their presence , down to the last crumb in the kitchen cupboard and a twist of make-up-stained tissue in the waste basket . |