Example sentences of "down [coord] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many talks fail because speakers talk down or over the heads of their audience .
2 I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again .
3 I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand .
4 She just reached down and into the tray for what she knew would be there , and this almost certainly did n't include Masklin .
5 The square , window-type frame gives practice with moving in and out as well as up , down and over the top of , and there is experience of being enclosed within a three-dimensional shape .
6 I N like this , down and along the top like a bridge
7 Unionist MPs made much capital from the embarrassment of Liberals who had to vote the Bill down and from the ineffectiveness of John Burns , one of the weakest of the Liberal ministers .
8 And he used to go to these houses Dunoon and them and er all the way down and around the promenade around the south parade and er and he used to go these houses with all these and then there were some er black and white minstrels in the valley .
9 ‘ Your emotions go up and down but by the end of the trial our hopes were really up .
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