Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There we all stand in companionable silence , stamping our feet , swinging our arms , pulling woolly caps down over ears , getting colder and colder as the skies darken . |
| 2 | Total write-offs of £117 million took post-tax earnings down to £114.5 million from £201.4 million in 1991 . |
| 3 | Women 's bargains include blue check jackets down from £79.99 to £39.99 , lilac microfibre sweaters from Pounds 24.99 to £12.49 , chocolate double-breasted jackets down from £89.99 to £49.99 and matching trousers reduced from Pounds 46.99 to £23.49 . |
| 4 | But Chris Powell and Adam Locke could do little to bring John King 's flight-to-the-moon Rovers down to earth . |
| 5 | Fixed costs down by £6,000 |
| 6 | One could put all these postulated differences down on paper and , taking samples of the two groups , go off and interview them with all sorts of yes/no questions . |
| 7 | Nostalgic times down in Lurgan |
| 8 | In all three AMEC divisions , trading worsened , leaving profits before exceptional items down from £63.4m to £50.1m . |
| 9 | But when Roland Jarvis — Jim Leng 's predecessor as chief executive — took over in 1984 , he instituted a programme of rationalisations and disposals to focus Bonar 's diverse interests down to packaging and specialist materials . |
| 10 | London Market including internal reinsurance , produced estimated losses down from $10.2m to $9.7m . |
| 11 | Washed silk button-through flared dresses down from £99.95 to £79.95 , corded lace dresses down from £99.95 to Pounds 49.97 . |
| 12 | I used to go out with the London detectives , and these Cockney fellers down in London , they 'd take money off anyone . |
| 13 | Many groan frequently , saying , " Woe to our days , because the zeal for letters has died among us , nor is it to be found in those people who can set present events down in writing " . |
| 14 | We did n't have much time for subtle distinctions down in East Oxford . |
| 15 | A short crossing over the peat groughs to the south and you are soon peering from one of the eroded rocky buttresses down into Grindsbrook , whose eastern fork provides entertaining scrambling over rocky steps followed by a gentle amble , perhaps in the gathering gloom , down the widening track and fields to the twinkling lights of Edale . |
| 16 | Double beds down from £1,500 to £1,200 . |
| 17 | But with night-time temperatures down to minus 6 at times this month , it 's increasingly having to turn people away . |
| 18 | Grocery savings include spaghetti , down 20p to 78p a kg , olive oil down 30p to £1.49 for 500ml and sun-dried tomatoes down to 99p from £1.35 for 285g . |
| 19 | Ziggy beams down to earth |
| 20 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 21 | Single sheets down from £15 to £9.95 , fitted king-size sheets £22 to £15.50 . |
| 22 | He had a pleasure boat for about ten years before he died , used to run fucking tourists down to Hampton Court , that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 23 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 24 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 25 | NEW Welsh Secretary John Redwood is to press ahead with plans to cut Welsh councils down to size . |
| 26 | Slumberland 12-tog duvets down from £14.99 to £9.99 . |
| 27 | Whirled through the magnetic fields of space until entrapped by the Earth 's own magnetic field , they crash into the upper atmosphere shattering the nuclei of atoms and projecting fragments and other particles down to Earth . |
| 28 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 29 | Formal trousers down from £70 to £35 . |
| 30 | You can have the greatest ideas in the world for improving competitive edge , but you have to rely on other people to carry them out , from senior managers down to labourers . ’ |