Example sentences of "[adv] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I got them , me mum got me some black ones , but they 're like , they come right down to the ankles |
| 2 | From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers . |
| 3 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 4 | Yes it 'll , it 'll travel right down to the tips |
| 5 | right down to the tips of your fingers . |
| 6 | But that aside , it 's pretty much ideal preparation for the marathon , right down to the drinks on offer . |
| 7 | I drifted after the three of them to watch the runners come out for the third race and was n't far behind them when they walked right down to the rails to see the contest from the closest possible quarters . |
| 8 | Since Stevenson 's now owned Sir George right down to the buttons on his shirt , she thought that most generous . |
| 9 | You can see the panic in their eyes these days , right down to the ants . |
| 10 | It reaches right down into the companies themselves . |
| 11 | They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world . |
| 12 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 13 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 14 | In , fatal cases this pseudo- membrane can extend right from the top of the respiratory track here down into bronchi , and you can get these enormous casts of mucrotic material er , starting in the pharynx and working their way right down in the bronchi . |
| 15 | We sat right down by the ashes of a fire , and I looked at them , and I did n't wonder who could have made them . |
| 16 | Somewhere down in the depths , he felt certain , lay Marius Steen 's gun , thrown away after the murder was committed . |
| 17 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 18 | they want their evening entertainment , then they go off down , then on down to the clubs . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone 's so down in the dumps and poor . |
| 20 | But only down to the tiles so mine 'd only be half way . |
| 21 | It you are constantly down in the dumps over the price of fleecewear then this may be the answer to your prayers . |
| 22 | Along its length was a thread of blue light , which widened , widened , as the two halves of the roof retracted , rumbling gently down into the walls . |
| 23 | Now Raymond , Raymond take Stephen down down to the shops . |
| 24 | As Ross watched her gazing fondly down at the babies , whose heads were already covered with dark hair , and — so Laura had firmly informed him — were carbon copies of their father , he knew that he was an incredibly lucky man . |
| 25 | Meanwhile down at the Arts Centre it was music of a different kind with Melvyn Bragg , presenter of ITV 's South Bank Show . |
| 26 | Ace stared morosely down at the rocks . |
| 27 | It 's not just down to the inmates |
| 28 | Cultural cosmopolitanism at Cyrene meant that its connections ran across to the rest of the Greek world , not down to the natives whom the Greek colonists had displaced or overrun . |
| 29 | To the courts , to the magistrates , remember that man , the judge , it 's all down to him and the jury , it 's not down to the police . |
| 30 | ‘ The mood in our camp is still good though , we 're certainly not down in the doldrums . |