Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 3 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 4 | For example , an elder ( like the rest of us ) will get up , go to the toilet , go through familiar washing routines , make tea , collect the paper from the front door , and perhaps walk down to the shops or catch the bus into town , with competence and efficiency . |
| 5 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 6 | Afterwards , she felt very much let down by the family 's decision , saying she would have preferred to die rather than live in such a disabled condition . |
| 7 | She had evidently only come down to the foyer to collect her mail . |
| 8 | The trapdoor in the floor is intact and a set of stone steps below lead down to the basement , location 3a . |
| 9 | Slowly relax down to the floor . |
| 10 | But this good control , plus the fine grip and limited body roll , are badly let down in the driver appeal stakes by the steering . |
| 11 | They receive a child who has been badly let down in the past , who has to learn , painfully , how to care and trust again . |
| 12 | Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation . |
| 13 | " Just nip down to the dining room and put the tiniest whisky , only up to here , " she held three of Nicandra 's fingers against the glass , rolling empty on the eiderdown " very nice , too . |
| 14 | Labour , he said , would fight for more cash to run social services , not just lie down like the Tories and accept what they were given . |
| 15 | So just jot down at the side of the page the other eleven names in the room okay everybody 's Tony , Mike , Jeff , Sarah , Bob , Rob , Gordon , John , Tom , Joanne , Mike Dave . |
| 16 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 18 | Mark took from Sophia the cyclostyled leaflet hardly a ‘ brochure ’ he felt — and read through the rules starting with ‘ Sex ( undoctored … = and Siamese cats can not be accepted ) ’ , going on to invite owners to bring bedding but ‘ no bowls , please ’ , and ending with the injunction ‘ This year we must ask you to leave your cat at the house and not go down to the Cattery . |
| 19 | I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays |
| 20 | And you can think of that pretty easily if you look at your table erm just write down with the charges on the the ions what H two S O four looks like . |
| 21 | ‘ She just fall down in the road screaming . |
| 22 | You just snuggle down in the feathers and hang on . ’ |
| 23 | Plenty of small ones just float down through the atmosphere like dust — which , at a tenth of a millimetre across , is pretty much what they are . |
| 24 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 25 | I 'm only gon na get it four foot deep with it anyway it would n't be four foot deep all over , it 'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part |
| 26 | One is now face down in the corner , snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths . |
| 27 | Quick glance down at the clear water in the bowl . |
| 28 | Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons . |
| 29 | Now get down to the business of making a country fit for business to operate in , with plenty of unemployment and real inequality . ’ |
| 30 | And now get down to the end of the document . |