Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pushed , it will reluctantly and rather crossly waddle down the beach and take refuge in the sea . |
| 2 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 3 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 4 | ‘ I waited for Graham to arrive on Hampstead Heath — the hunched figure I knew so well tottering down the tarmac path that clings to the side of the hill in the twilight . |
| 5 | It is when these fail that sex , drugs or alcohol are invoked to more effectively push down the pain . |
| 6 | Mr Kenneth Baker probably wisely turned down the offer of becoming Secretary of State for Wales but it was a serious proposition . |
| 7 | Do n't get drawn into committing your supporting troops into combat if they can just as easily pin down the enemy from a distance . |
| 8 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 9 | After a few words with her husband she shook hands with me , kissed him on both cheeks , and then quickly disappeared down the cellar , leaving the two of us to finish off the champagne and burgundy . |
| 10 | He then completely stripped down the engine replacing worn parts and reassembled them . |
| 11 | Cats have been known to laze , apparently half-asleep , for up to an hour beside a mouse hole , yet instantly to cut down the unwary prey that , even momentarily , shows itself . |
| 12 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 13 | Traditional Irish music and song at its very best rolls down the curtain on the Festival folk music programme for another year . |
| 14 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |