Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caddies ' prizes for the 18 entrants were £1 , for the winner down to 2s. 0d. , and a club supplied by the Professional for the best behaved caddie . |
| 2 | While environmental groups have over the years been highly critical of pollution caused by coal-fired power stations , in particular the levels of emissions of sulphur dioxide and other gases that cause acid rain , neither Friends of the Earth nor Greenpeace nor other groups has expressed support for the scaling down of the coal industry along the lines proposed by the government . |
| 3 | Do n't tell me Henry did n't plan Stephen 's dash for the throne down to the last detail , because I 'll never believe it . |
| 4 | Whence came the inducements for the move down to the docks ? |
| 5 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 6 | In the meantime , reliable and authoritative sources placed further blame on the Vincennes for the shooting down of the airbus . |
| 7 | Vukovar and Vinkovci south of Osijek were bombarded on Aug. 25 on a scale unprecedented in the conflict , possibly in retaliation for the shooting down of two air force jets by Croatian forces in the area on Aug. 24 . |
| 8 | Other recent cases of " friendly fire " involving US forces included air attacks on UK personnel during the Gulf war [ see p. 38927 ; see also pp. 36169-70 for the shooting down in 1988 of an Iranian commercial airliner ] . |
| 9 | Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms . |
| 10 | TENBY was all the rage yesterday for the Derby down to 8-1 . |
| 11 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 12 | And as the lady down here said , if the ladies do n't like it , switch it off ! |
| 13 | They are biological catalysts — other words they trigger off or speed up a process such as the break down of waste in an aquarium . |
| 14 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 15 | Here 's a little report I put together about the game down in Southampton . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's all I know about the situation down there , ’ Talbot said , ‘ and heaven knows it 's little enough . |
| 17 | We 've both written about the riverbank down here as I have — so there 's a lot of connections . |
| 18 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 19 | The waymarked tourist path to the summit of Ben Lomond in the recently created Loch Lomond regional park has become , in the words of the conservationists ‘ a four lane motorway ’ , which at its worst cuts a deep furrow through the peak down to bedrock . |
| 20 | The walk through the town down to the beach takes about 15 minutes . |
| 21 | Sometimes I have to dig a path through the snow down to the stream and use a pick on the frozen stream . |
| 22 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 23 | The first thing I never went to the doctor with when I , I tumbled off the wall down cut me head open and that 's the only , and then after I got used to playing football they must 've , have put a steel inset into your head the way I head that ball . |
| 24 | I 'm so damned tired after the drive down here that I doubt I 'll have the energy for anything more than sleep . ’ |
| 25 | He jumped up , pulling the lower branches of the tree down and clipped off stems , letting them fall to the ground . |
| 26 | We all moved out of the church down to the lake which glistened brightly , though the island itself was still mist-shrouded . |
| 27 | even if the church was And they 've cut all the side , the other side , Church Street they 've cut all the hedge of the church down there and dumped all the grass inside , no not the grass , the branches , inside well you 'd think they 'd get a blooming lorry or a van to take it all down the blooming tip would n't you ? |
| 28 | Such human needs will range from the basic ones for security , which are threatened when other members of an organization wish to close part of the operation down or attempt to perform the same operations with fewer personnel , to the need for self-realization , which may be threatened by extreme specialization and limited capabilities within the division of labour perceived by those in authority to be necessary for the maximization of their objectives ( which will invariably be presented as the goals of ‘ the organization ’ ) . |
| 29 | They saw it go out of the valley down towards Keswick . |
| 30 | Crossing sets of stitches tend to draw the work in and to prevent this in part and to make crossing the sets of stitches easier , it is usual to run at least one stitch at either side of the cable down to form a ladder . |