Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 2 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 3 | You can choose between matt , satin or gloss finishes for the degree of shine you want , and can then merely wipe down with a damp cloth to keep clean . |
| 4 | This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine . |
| 5 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 6 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 7 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 8 | Last month the local PRI rammed through a law postponing the state election for 18 months , only to back down after a national outcry . |
| 9 | These were swiftly put down by a detachment of the newly established Armed Police firing tear gas into the crowds . |
| 10 | The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium , given the name Legionella pneumophila . |
| 11 | She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’ |
| 12 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 13 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 14 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 15 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 16 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 17 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 18 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 19 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 20 | I had , over the course of the morning , already gulped down about a gallon of teeth-achingly cold stream-water at various points up in the hills , but the traditional Scottish hangover treatment was probably just what I needed . |
| 21 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 22 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 23 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 24 | Others stoutly denied this matriarchal ascendency , insisting that , following its promiscuous episode , early society soon settled down under a patriarchal régime in which the opposite sex knew its place and kept it . |
| 25 | If we try to relate the stratigraphical column , in all its fantastic detail , to these general theories , we will inevitably soon bog down in a welter of information . |
| 26 | It was just after ten in the morning , yet the sun already blazed down from a vast , deep blue sky that seemed washed clean of all impurities . |
| 27 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 28 | He was pleased at the news , though it must be reported not exactly knocked down with a feather . |
| 29 | Happily , the stories live on , such as the visiting sportsman who , when boasting about his prowess with the gun , was easily put down by a local crofter : ‘ Man , that is nothing . |
| 30 | I 'm just sitting down with a drink and the news before dinner . |