Example sentences of "[vb base] down the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 2 | As you go down the page in Figure 2 , the number of twig tips successively doubles . |
| 3 | While fibre-rich foods are chewed slowly , calorific drinks require no chewing at all and go down the throat in a split second . |
| 4 | ( e.g. Follow three consecutive actions such as ‘ Write down the place in the classroom where you think your plant will grow best , find out what the others on your table think and try to agree on which is likely to be the best place ’ . ) |
| 5 | Will Bryan Robson , Roy Aitken and the boys come down the catwalk in gathered sleeves , button-down collars , funny geometric patches of colour , or even power-dressing shoulder pads ? |
| 6 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |