Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , be quiet , do , you stupid dog ! ’ scolded the housekeeper , slapping the animal smartly on his nose so that he leapt back down off the bed on to which he had just jumped . |
| 2 | As the dust spun slowly down through the sunlight on to Miss Harker 's silent form , he waited patiently at her elbow like a wizened monkey whose master , the organ-grinder , has fallen asleep and forgotten to start the music . |
| 3 | Looking down from the balcony on to the terrace , she observed that the cat was undisturbed by the gulls . |
| 4 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 5 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |