Example sentences of "down [prep] a [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again .
2 But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins .
3 Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’
4 And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground .
5 But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest .
6 The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day .
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