Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 2 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 3 | Our beamy Bénéteau made a lot of noise as she slammed down into the troughs before climbing the next steep wave . |
| 4 | The basic solution is first to restrict the flow of water percolating down into the aquifers by planting trees , preferably native species , on the higher ground . |
| 5 | He should be encouraged to stretch down onto the bit without losing balance or rhythm . |
| 6 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 7 | A trail of slow-moving headlights slides away and down from the arena like oozing lava snaking away from Mother . |
| 8 | The mantri looked it up and down from the doorway without saying a word . |
| 9 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 10 | Mr Patten promises that the Government will ‘ allow ( sic ) the public to take local authorities to court if they fall down on the job of keeping the streets clean . |
| 11 | The bulk of the houses were grouped around the Church , along what is now the High St. and extended from the Plough to Hall House ( or Bourne 's ) , then from there in a line down to the river with Halling House or the Old Palace prominent by the Church . |
| 12 | SCARBOROUGH hope to get down to the problem of tackling their much-maligned McCain Stadium pitch with the appointment of new ground consultants . |
| 13 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 14 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 15 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 16 | After this brief affair with TV , Kylie returned to the classroom where she knuckled down to the job of passing her exams . |
| 17 | Having defined the size of the board the next stage is to consider the circuit and the components themselves , before getting down to the job of designing the copper track pattern itself . |
| 18 | Smith said that some of the reporters had been drinking before getting down to the job of covering the fight ; Hearn is considering litigation . |
| 19 | Cats do often pause after catching their prey and momentarily release what they imagine is a corpse before settling down to the business of eating it . |
| 20 | As always they will go to businesses and organisations whose support for various aspects of the arts throughout 1992 has most impressed the ABSA judges who get down to the business of sifting through hundreds of entries early next month . |
| 21 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 22 | Now get down to the business of making a country fit for business to operate in , with plenty of unemployment and real inequality . ’ |
| 23 | After a flypast of more modern military life it was down to the business of unveiling the plaque which commemorates the role of the Three Hundred and Ninetieth . |
| 24 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
| 25 | She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double . |
| 26 | Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users . |
| 27 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 28 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 29 | Erm , so that 's why I put down six , so , you could also put , you know , if you want to , it all down to the matter of doing the same job , |
| 30 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |