Example sentences of "[noun] down in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 2 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 3 | Before we leave erm seventeen fours erm sheet , the there was a question I 'd have , I think it 's probably addressed to Graham rather than anything , nothing personal about this , er , the actual state of equivalent in the month , the third figure down in the last box |
| 4 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 5 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 6 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 7 | Yet one of the sights I treasure most in my memory is of a French river in the Cévennes where black-veined whites in their hundreds were floating among falling poplar down in the dappled sunlight . |
| 8 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 9 | Marovitz and the Jeanetta Cochrane were early tenants down in the lower depths . |
| 10 | The pallbearers laid the coffin down in the clear space at the exact centre of the cemetery , and moved to the edges , standing amidst the grave markers like ragged vultures . |
| 11 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 12 | I have a headache and am concerned that the wind has dehydrated me ; it is so important to pour liquid down in the Arctic , especially in winter . |
| 13 | The old man had disappeared outside again without a word , having set Theda 's portmanteau down in the wide hall . |
| 14 | Cos we had other people concerned with the stores down in the head office as well , the buyers and . |
| 15 | No , the only buggers Sam Snort has any time for are the boys down in the gay bars who have affectively tendered their resignation from the Snortian fields of romantic endeavour . |
| 16 | But the Kylie story really starts thousand of miles away from Bethlehem Hospital , way down in the Welsh valleys … |
| 17 | At 3600 m on Mount Erebus , Ross Island , where no surface vegetation was apparent , Janetschek ( 1963 ) recorded bacteria , blue-green algae and microfungi a few centimetres down in the volcanically-warmed soil . |
| 18 | A goal down in the first 10 minutes . |
| 19 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 20 | Millions of miles down in the black , twisted heart of me I do . |