Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 2 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 3 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 5 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 6 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 7 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 8 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 9 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 10 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the new wealth was subject to some control through institutions which were central to the image of Arab government ( household , lineage ) even if the wider groupings were likely eventually to break down under the pressures of differentiation . |
| 12 | And was the water there to go down into the villages ? |
| 13 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 14 | Sharpe stepped a pace forward to look down at the map . |