Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Titles which are identified as possible purchases need to be noted down during the course of the stock revision . |
| 2 | These ghastly memorials were frequently laid down during the lifetime of the persons they were intended to commemorate , in order that they might constantly be reminded that they were but mortal . |
| 3 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 4 | BBC closed down for the rest of the day , except for news . ’ |
| 5 | At many subsequent meetings there are regulations laid down for the conduct of the Pacquet , and a committee appointed to see that they were conformed to . |
| 6 | At many subsequent meetings there are regulations laid down for the conduct of the Pacquet , and a committee appointed to see that they were conformed to . |
| 7 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 8 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 9 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 10 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 11 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 12 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 13 | Extend down for the line of the cable run |
| 14 | ‘ If Dad comes home early we might get my Hornby down off the top of the wardrobe . ’ |
| 15 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 16 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 17 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 18 | The mob rose and attacked Gaunt 's palace of the Savoy , hanging his coat of arms upside down as the sign of a traitor . |
| 19 | One of the two reactors of Spain 's Asco power station was shut down as the result of a leak , although there was no discharge of radioactivity into the atmosphere . |
| 20 | He marked in the cabin , the quarry , and the track up as far as the cabin and back down through the dip to the fork . |
| 21 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 22 | A hairline crack runs down through the middle of the glass . |
| 23 | If a fuze went out there was always someone prepared to force a metal pricker down through the packing into the dynamite in the hope of inserting a fresh capped fuze , even though inadvertently piercing the thin copper detonator might mean death or mutilation . |
| 24 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 25 | For over 250 years after Sekigahara the title of shogun was handed down through the males of the Tokugawa family . |
| 26 | When the draught 's okay the flame gets drawn over the bag-wall at the back of the firebox , then it sweeps round the arch of the kiln-chamber , down through the pots into the throat and out up the chimney . |
| 27 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 28 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 29 | The rope , however , was no longer hanging down through the hole in the ceiling . |
| 30 | They make their way down through the courtyard past the concierge 's busy-lizzies and geraniums in their cluster of terracotta and out onto the street where the Mercedes and driver are double-parked squeezing the traffic to an irascible trickle . |