Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 2 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 3 | I braked too late at the second corner and changed down to third while turning the wheel , feeding it through my hands . |
| 4 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 5 | They owed much to their New Zealand coach , Murray Kidd , for a 20–9 victory which put them a point ahead of the rest , Shannon being thrust down to second place . |
| 6 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 7 | And the Beaubourg gallery has recent assemblages by the French sculptor César until 7 November : cut-out , compressed , superimposed statues of Communist leaders brought down by last summer 's events in Moscow and entitled ‘ Ave Lenin ’ . |
| 8 | The NERC 's chairman , John Knill , warned that its research programme would have to be scaled down from next year , unless fresh government funds were forthcoming . |
| 9 | Ireland 's Conor Henry , last year 's overall winner , went down in sixth place overall and looks likely to have to settle for a placing . |
| 10 | Also expected to score league points which go down to tenth place , are Pat Hutton and Stuart Smith ( both Penicuik RT ) and the promoting club 's fast junior , Lachie Badenoch . |
| 11 | Scarborough badly need to pick up points after slumping down to 17th place after suffering a run of just one League win in nine games . |
| 12 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |
| 13 | Foot to step down at next election |