Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homoeopathy can be very satisfying if you do not get worried or weighed down by the ‘ burden ’ of finding a remedy . |
| 2 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 3 | No decisions have yet been taken on which newspapers will be sold or closed down in the UK . |
| 4 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 5 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 6 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 7 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 8 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 9 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 10 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 11 | Then she opened the bedroom door and crept down through the dark , silent house . |
| 12 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 13 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 14 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 15 | Her tracksuit and flying jacket dragged on the ground as she slid and bumped down into the blackness . |
| 16 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 17 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 18 | They gathered their possessions and moved down to the cold , deserted taproom . |
| 19 | The crowd parted and an English doctor stepped over the warning wire and knelt down beside the man . |
| 20 | He decided to listen to their conversation , and knelt down outside the tent , making a little hole with his knife in the heavy cotton so that he could see the two people inside . |
| 21 | Then he went quiet and knelt down by the redhead . |
| 22 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 23 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 24 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 25 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 26 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 27 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 28 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 29 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 30 | They came out of the circuit one by one and bore down on the SE5s , each of which was now heading for the balloon from a different quarter . |