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

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1 Because they settled down better in the night in the woodlands .
2 Sometimes the chairman of a committee stands down temporarily from the chair in order to express a deeply felt personal view about an issue in which he has an interest .
3 In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards .
4 And down here on the side in front of me now you got Super , Super Nesh yo , and that 's a , the , that 's the one what comes from America .
5 They were expert at vanishing silently and reappearing suddenly in some unexpected place ; and in case of need the Lord Owen 's main stronghold of Glyndyfrdwy was no great distance away , mound and manor guarded by a curve of the Dee , down there to the south in the close confine of the valley .
6 Look , if you look down there under the bridge in the tunnel , look it 's still flooded .
7 But the chandelier declined to bear his weight and instead of swinging , he merely sat down heavily on the floor in a hail of diamonds and plaster .
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