Example sentences of "[noun sg] down at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose .
2 And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 .
3 For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging .
4 I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom .
5 Lee hacked on and collected a favourable bounce to dot down at the posts .
6 Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle .
7 Violet pulled her mouth down at the corners and shrugged her skinny shoulders .
8 I attend the Pyramid down at the Surfside Mall .
9 The real crunch came , however , in the sketch that regularly brought the roof down at the Apollo .
10 Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches .
11 At Ephesos , as in Rome , baths were constructed in various parts of the city , notably those built at the Vedius gymnasium , ( mid-second century A.D. ) , the immense complex down at the harbour ( second century A.D ) and the smaller Scholastikia Baths , enlarged in the fourth century A.D. and situated on the marble sacred street .
12 And er er drop them in the in the blacksmith 's shop , and then when he 'd finished with them , when he 'd done 'em , they 'd all be in a tub down at the pit bottom .
13 So , stick with it for four months , and you 'll have all the information you need to look like an expert down at the pub !
14 With what-all they 're doing to this planet down at the equator , there 's some weird stuff happening up here .
15 And when she put the phone down at the end she said that was , that was
16 She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue .
17 Well all the Sri Lankan batsmen seem pretty good at adopting the tactic of sticking the pad down at the back follow somewhere after it .
18 You want that wall down at the back , it 'll go back further .
19 Bill , there there 'll be a tiny wee spot of water down at the bottom here Bill that 'll maybe take today just to dissolve away .
20 There has been some talk of screening the game at Elland Road , but i 'd prefer to recover from the previous nights over indulgence down at the boozer , rather than in the West Stand .
21 THERE has been trouble down at the community centre in Evenwood .
22 Seventy-two , and getting filthier by the minute , Reg Butler had sex like other men of his age spent Sundays digging their vegetable patch down at the allotment .
23 ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’
24 Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all , so that the legions had to make various other encampments , scattered wherever there was suitable ground .
25 She laughed quietly , that same feeling she had had staring down at the cove through the trees — that sense of being not quite herself — returning to her .
26 He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge .
27 And this title er the festival of the horse was , shall I say dreamed up , erm and in fact we had one or two horses , Clydesdale horses , on show down at the Crummery square in the Hope .
28 Prior to that particular jamboree , it was schmooze city down at the World Trade Center ( sic ) for the first lot of talks/panels/seminars which seemed to cover everything from How To Get A Record Deal to How To Lose A Record Deal to How To Fry An Egg .
29 Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms .
30 Always taper your training down at the end of a workout ; do not stop suddenly because this can cause fainting or dizziness .
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