Example sentences of "[noun] down at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs .
2 No you do n't , no see they 've had er mums and tots down at the centre today
3 He 'd spend hours down at the Pyramid talking through his emotions on this one .
4 They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose .
5 And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 .
6 For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging .
7 I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom .
8 Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't
9 Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle .
10 I attend the Pyramid down at the Surfside Mall .
11 Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches .
12 He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening .
13 As soon as he saw Adam 's passport he had flicked his eyes down at the register under the counter .
14 At Ephesos , as in Rome , baths were constructed in various parts of the city , notably those built at the Vedius gymnasium , ( mid-second century A.D. ) , the immense complex down at the harbour ( second century A.D ) and the smaller Scholastikia Baths , enlarged in the fourth century A.D. and situated on the marble sacred street .
15 And er er drop them in the in the blacksmith 's shop , and then when he 'd finished with them , when he 'd done 'em , they 'd all be in a tub down at the pit bottom .
16 So , stick with it for four months , and you 'll have all the information you need to look like an expert down at the pub !
17 ‘ I suppose we are getting a bit blasé about having television companies down at the railway , ’ admitted Operations Manager Martin Millar .
18 I 've raised this , these points that we 've raised when we went and met Donald down at the park , and the school have said they will not erm allow the children to go that way .
19 No doubt you have the proper facilities for taking statements down at the station . ’
20 With what-all they 're doing to this planet down at the equator , there 's some weird stuff happening up here .
21 And when she put the phone down at the end she said that was , that was
22 She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue .
23 We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road .
24 Well all the Sri Lankan batsmen seem pretty good at adopting the tactic of sticking the pad down at the back follow somewhere after it .
25 ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’
26 You want that wall down at the back , it 'll go back further .
27 Bill , there there 'll be a tiny wee spot of water down at the bottom here Bill that 'll maybe take today just to dissolve away .
28 He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead .
29 There has been some talk of screening the game at Elland Road , but i 'd prefer to recover from the previous nights over indulgence down at the boozer , rather than in the West Stand .
30 Nor yet the immense Catacombs down at the base of the fortress-monastery , where heroes ancient and modern lay in ranks of caskets .
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