Example sentences of "[noun pl] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Contacts down in New Orleans at the Unix International annual members meeting , where reporters are barred , called in last week as we went to press to say that nothing substantive had happened yet that would move the industry further down the unity path .
2 Nostalgic times down in Lurgan
3 It 's less than 40 minutes down to Grantown , just floating .
4 United had three defenders down with injury including keeper Alan Judge .
5 Around a surrealistic voice sampled from some US TV slot ( where a female patient is explaining her habit of grinding her teeth down to stumps in her sleep ) and a garbled vocal , Therapy ? build up a wall of solid playing that only they can eventually tear down .
6 The geese arrived with a bow wave that surged over the nomes ' feet , and arched their necks down towards Shrub .
7 ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back .
8 After I 'd thrown the bag in , I read the instructions and the small print said it would only remove nitrates down to 20ppm .
9 I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did .
10 Bodies often float to the surface , but you of all people must know that those who drown in the Thames can disappear altogether and are probably taken by undercurrents down through London and out to sea . ’
11 They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 .
12 The seven leaders , who also included Banana rider Ben Luckwell , were five minutes clear of the main field and Kovar , who had started the day in 17th place 3mins 8secs down on Lillywhite , looked set to turn the race upside down .
13 Erm , she 's lived most of her life in the Cambridge and Northampton area but she 's spent six months down in Plymouth , and erm , her previous job before working for T N T was she actually helped set up a baby unit in a private nursery , but claimed she only prefers other people 's children .
14 Nike Air Max trainers down from £69.99 to £39.99 .
15 The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go .
16 Lawrence added : ‘ It was important not to let our fans down at Molineux .
17 If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures .
18 There we all stand in companionable silence , stamping our feet , swinging our arms , pulling woolly caps down over ears , getting colder and colder as the skies darken .
19 When United fans were kicking more than just sand castles down in Bournemouth , they wore T-shirts bearing the sinister motto ‘ Nobody Likes Us And We Do n't Care ’ .
20 Roger has also dismissed the use of ‘ contracts ’ : ‘ as if you can hope to put relationships down on paper ’ .
21 Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly .
22 At the end of the promenade they could take a flight of steps down to rocks that were slippery with seaweed , and clamber over them until they reached the shingle .
23 Going to work for a young musician may mean days spent rehearsing — getting songs down on tape , producing a demo on a front-room recording unit , or playing at a pub gig .
24 Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater .
25 Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them .
26 Production up and losses down after QA project
27 Underlying improvement achieved in all major classes during 1991 continued into Q1 of 1992 which produced losses down by 30% from $92.8m to $65.2m .
28 London Market including internal reinsurance , produced estimated losses down from $10.2m to $9.7m .
29 Substantial improvement with losses down from $20.9m to $7.8m .
30 General Accident Property Services produced losses down from $5.2m to $4.5m
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