Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 2 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |
| 3 | No doubt it will suit company car users down to the ground . |
| 4 | What fun you children had skating on the tennis courts down in the valley , and putting on plays and dances with the Claydons . |
| 5 | At Episkopi , he found one of the Martini brothers down by the warehouses . |
| 6 | I think the most interesting point here is the tax charge which is two percentage points down on the year before and that really is prior year adjustments , there are other pluses and minuses but that 's a significant reason . |
| 7 | Europe wants shops to give information on the efficiency of all white goods , televisions and hi-fis , computers , ovens , lights and other household appliances down to the smallest toaster . |
| 8 | Enthusiasm from shift operators down to the management was absolutely superb . |
| 9 | The government is now faced with the realisation that treatment alone will not get lead levels down to the 50 ug/litre required by the Directive . |
| 10 | So warning number one for the carp bait genius , make sure you can get your amino acid levels down to the levels found in nature ! |
| 11 | Virtually every paper responded , from the main provincial dailies and evening papers down to the smallest local weekly , each with a feature article on a lost house in their area . |
| 12 | I had absolutely no idea and put Malc 's brief disappearances and inexplicable whispered phone calls down to the fact that he was being unfaithful to his mistress . |
| 13 | so they refused to do it up , well the result was over the years the pot holes down to the sites got bigger and they 're so far off the road from |
| 14 | To his right ran the main road from the Cotswold hills down into the sleepy little market town of Lulling , which Thrush Green adjoined . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose we are getting a bit blasé about having television companies down at the railway , ’ admitted Operations Manager Martin Millar . |
| 16 | The usefulness of having transaction processing applications down on the workstation , the company says , is to bring for example sales order processing information closer to the salesperson , who can play around with the data in a windows-based environment , oblivious to the complex processing going on behind the scenes . |
| 17 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |
| 18 | Zambia slammed hir fists down on the table , causing the Sindy droid to bleep unexpectedly . |
| 19 | There were a few wooden beach huts down by the shoreline . |
| 20 | Place some more royal icing ( about 300g/10oz ) in a piping bag with a basket-weave nozzle and pipe lines down from the waist to the hem . |
| 21 | First of all , Councillor comments , erm , you know , there seems to be this this er conservative mentality , that is let's drive all our working conditions down to the level of the competition , which means , you know , we would have a a mining industry if we were prepared to put children in , like that do in Columbia . |
| 22 | I put the metal box containing the army ration-strengths down on the ground . |
| 23 | In fact I pointed that out to the grave-diggers , but they were already 4ft 6ins down at the time . |
| 24 | what power does each of them have in the state apparatus ( principally the legislature , the army , police , certain key ministries and their line agencies down to the local level ) , and outside it — in the countryside , Chambers of Commerce , the shop-floor , and so on ? |
| 25 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 26 | Do kneading movements on the body , placing the hands palms down on the back with the fingers meeting at waist level , thumbs pointing forwards . |
| 27 | There are now nine regional councils ( ranging from Strathclyde with 2.3m inhabitants down to the Borders with 101,000 ) and fifty-three district councils ( ranging from 744,000 in Glasgow to 10,000 in Badenoch and Strathspey ) . |
| 28 | Neither has Derbyshire county council which , unlike many Tory councils , has kept school meal prices down to the lowest in Britain and refused to sack workers . |
| 29 | But friends , comrades - consider — if Britain treats its own like dirt , how will it treat its faraway cousins down under the Antipodes ? ’ |
| 30 | Well they 're taking all the power lines down in the village , or down through that part of the village which , fair enough , gets rid of the eyesore but they 're gon na put now a bloody big transformer , abou thing about seven , eight foot bloody tall in , in the field right on the Copper Dollar |