Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] down a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like tumbling down a whole to your earholes from the start is n't it ? |
| 2 | It 's like going down a tube . |
| 3 | I was once chuntering down a slope in the peaty Mount Keen country above the Angus glens and leapt off the top of an eroded peat hag . |
| 4 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 5 | I shall not develop that point today , because it is not immediately relevant ; I am simply putting down a marker that , as the Bill 's provisions succeed in the community , we should not exclude an extension into other areas . |
| 6 | Drilling down to where rocks are at high temperatures , excavating a large cavity , then pumping down a fluid which could be vaporised and used to generate electricity , could give geothermal energy a wide application but involves the development of new technology . |
| 7 | Carolyn rushed out , almost falling down a flight of stone steps . |
| 8 | John Wain — another Movement novelist — is said to have voted Conservative as early as 1951 , before he ever published a book , as if silently laying down a marker for the future : but then that was in the days of Winston Churchill . |
| 9 | They are used for the final stages when working down a tilth and levelling the surface once the large clods and turf have been broken . |