Example sentences of "[that] [vb base] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest are hauling at the crowbars that wind down the press , hobnails gritting on the frosty concrete . |
| 2 | Others , such as the fault that let down the great thickness of Mesozoic in Cardigan Bay ( to the west of Wales ) must have been much later , though they served to define basins that were presumably already there . |
| 3 | The excess moisture vapour in the air condenses into droplets of water , and these are deposited on the cold surface , first as a fine film that mists up the glass , and then as more moisture is deposited , the droplets combine to form rivulets that run down the surface to form those tell-tale pools of water on window sills and the like , sometimes ruining decoration , and causing window sills and frames to rot and rust . |
| 4 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 5 | Some varieties might engineer waterfalls that wear down the rocks faster , and hence speed into solution the raw materials needed to make new clays further downstream . |
| 6 | He was a nice young man bemused by the ‘ city folks that go down the canal then back up again . |
| 7 | ‘ The clothes that go down the best are bubbly , extrovert and full of character . ’ |
| 8 | He made his press speech this morning saying that she could n't even cos he thought that go down the hospital . |
| 9 | Maybe , thousands of years ago , birds and reptiles from continental South America had reached the Galapagos , ferried on the rafts of vegetation that float down the rivers and out to sea . |