Example sentences of "down [adv] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leather thwacked down on to the white tender flesh of her bonny twin moons to leave red scorch marks across the ivory white skin . |
| 2 | Here there is a calm sense of wonder and satisfaction coming down gently from the previous energetic emotion with the sigh of , ‘ Ah ’ , but still maintaining the feeling of happiness and ‘ brightness ’ with words such as ‘ white ’ and ‘ flame ’ with references to nature and ‘ bird-song ’ . |
| 3 | The impression was reinforced by Elton squatting down comfortably on the front-stage light box mid-story . |
| 4 | Hari took the tea Beatie handed her and set it down quickly on the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 5 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 6 | ‘ Look down there at the Western Surplus Store , ’ McIntosh said . |
| 7 | I was down there in the late fifties |
| 8 | It was down round about the forty two , forty five horsepower mark . |
| 9 | Bob felt himself swooping down again into the great soft darkness of sleep . |
| 10 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 11 | Consultancy profits were down again from the poor first half level . |