Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change , ’ wrote Tennyson , somewhat later , catching the romance and enthusiasm exactly but getting the detail of his metaphor badly wrong . |
| 2 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 3 | His thoughts were interrupted by a yell from further down the dock . |
| 4 | An answering halloo came from further down the ravine . |
| 5 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
| 6 | Th'gave un of thy own free will ! ’ came a voice from further down the room . |
| 7 | After a 2-year period of quiescence , explosive activity near the summit along the same SSE fissure on 14 December 1991 heralded the start of the present eruption , which has continued to produce basaltic magma to the present day from further down the fissure at an elevation of 2,400m above sea level ( a.s.l . ) . |
| 8 | A growing menace in Verdon is the determination of many climbers to lower down a pitch and then be top-roped up it . |
| 9 | Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers , it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof . |