Example sentences of "[conj] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrows can point up to heaven or down into hell . |
| 2 | Rest days from Ullapool were really out of the question so we either had to take the ship on the long sea passage to Aberdeen or down to Ardrossan . |
| 3 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 4 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
| 5 | Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 6 | They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment . |
| 7 | two people to go to John , erm because erm , apart from anything else it was agreed John 's arm was twisted yesterday to take two people and g and the work but the issue is is that the K does n't , the issue is is that there is no budget anywhere for it either here or down in John 's area . |
| 8 | In Method B , the amount to be paid out is a predetermined pool of money adjusted up or down in line with the year 's change in profits . |
| 9 | Fabia was up , dressed and down to breakfast by eight the next morning . |
| 10 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 11 | He wanted to stay in his own place but Jackie and Neville were nearly driven mad running up and down to Letchworth when all that they had to do , Jackie 's full time teaching and Nev is trying to build as many kitchens or build as many doors for millionaires as he possibly can . |
| 12 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 13 | And go up and down to London . |
| 14 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 15 | Some of the time the Germans at one end of the stadium were hearing the French translation , while their own language was floating with the wind over the top of the stadium and down to Lake Geneva . |
| 16 | The courses offered cover a huge range of time , from the origins of the human species , through the millennia of prehistory , the early civilizations of Mesopotamia , Egypt and the East Mediterranean and down to Celtic Europe at the beginning of Roman imperial expansion in Western Europe . |
| 17 | Every time the monostable output pulses low , transistor TR1 switches on and capacitor C2 loses a substantial amount of its charge via resistor R3 and down to 0V through the emitter of TR1 . |
| 18 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 19 | And down to earth though she was , she had to admit there were often some weird parallels . |
| 20 | On a practical and down to earth level it is worth finding out what clerical support you are likely to get in the clinic or base where you will be working . |
| 21 | WHAT OUR READERS SAY : ‘ May I compliment you on your very practical commonsense magazine which is informative , colourful , and down to earth . ’ |
| 22 | Er now some more practical and down to earth aspects er Michael director of development will run through the critical path analysis for the new factory extension . |
| 23 | Another recent royal portraitist is the amiable and down to earth Yorkshireman , Tom Wood . |
| 24 | Blues is viciously streamlined to a sound more U2-mainstreamed and modern , but still wild and down to earth . |
| 25 | More often she reminds me of our paternal grandmother , plump , practical and down to earth , ruling her household and large family with a shrewd capacity for command , always in an overall , her hair never tidy , her arms often covered in flour , talkative and affectionate . |
| 26 | Blues is viciously streamlined to a sound more U2-mainstreamed and modern , but still wild and down to earth . |
| 27 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 28 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 29 | Go east along field edge and down to stile . |
| 30 | Leaving the phone-booth , Quinn walked back into Blandford Street and down to Blackwood 's Hotel . |