Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 2 | The lunar light gleamed on gold , and his intake of breath was almost loud enough to echo down the alleyway . |
| 3 | Brahmadaitya are kind to humans , though should one be foolish enough to chop down the palm tree where this spirit lives , the offender 's neck will be snapped , like a twig . |
| 4 | This as well , right did n't take long to get down the tip ? |
| 5 | ‘ And she was the only one thin enough to get down the hole . |
| 6 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 7 | It is , inevitably , a shoddy , plastic , giveaway affair , with a spring arrangement housed within , purportedly to bring down the ballpoint . |
| 8 | I 'll try not to fall down the step when I go . |
| 9 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |
| 10 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 11 | Independent radio group , GWR , which joined the USM in March and recently merged with Consolidated Radio Holdings , has warned the media sector not to talk down the buoyancy of the industry . |
| 12 | Independent radio group , GWR , which joined the USM in March and recently merged with Consolidated Radio Holdings , has warned the media sector not to talk down the buoyancy of the industry . |
| 13 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |
| 14 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 15 | So Lloyd George as the story goes , advised them to go there with their father and take some crowbars with them , and not to break down the gate , to break down the wall , and take their minister with them and bury their father . |
| 16 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 17 | He claimed that his intention was not to bring down the government but merely to remind his brother of his election pledge to root out official corruption . |
| 18 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 19 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 20 | When the critical point was reached in mid-1941 , he acted quickly to turn down the heat . |
| 21 | Oh , what 's the matter with you ? her eyes asked her reflection as she retouched her lips , her boneless fingers taking forever to screw down the tube . |
| 22 | Benjamin asked , turning his chair slightly to look down the table at Dacourt . |
| 23 | The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 24 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 25 | You 're still working your strategy carefully to move down the field , using your back row , using your tight scrummage skills , using your three-quarters to gain some ground , and eventually you might outmanoeuvre the opposition defence and score . |
| 26 | Then he set out to rappel down the cliff , jerk after jerk as his feet hit the rock . |
| 27 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 28 | There are almost as many cattle as before the drought , and the 100 000 tonnes of food aid a year goes mainly to keep down the price of food in the cities . |
| 29 | However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ? |
| 30 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |