Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 2 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 3 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 4 | Things would quieten down for a little while and the huddles be reformed , but before long there was the crack of a whip and a pony and trap would dash down the field . |
| 5 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 6 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 7 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 8 | Wharton has a big-money fight with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro , formerly Slugger O'Toole , with his title and Castro 's British title on the line , after producing awesome punching that cut Carr , put him down for an eight count and forced referee Dave Parris step in after 2min 7sec . |
| 9 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 10 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At the church , note the direction of route which proceeds down between the two lakes and then keeps half left towards a barn and which is to left of and below distant tower of Preston Capes church . |
| 15 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 16 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 17 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 18 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 19 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One diver on a previous expedition to the Arctic got bent after chasing an elusive jellyfish down past a safe limit and having his regulator freeze up . |
| 23 | The above indicates that there is far more to negotiating than sitting down opposite the other party and trying to bargain . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 28 | At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled onto her back on the grass feeling exhausted . |
| 29 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 30 | But the best he could do was it down behind a large rock and escape from the grasp of the wind , though the rain still got to him and he started to shiver violently . |