Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac . |
| 2 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 3 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 4 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 5 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 6 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 7 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 8 | The last is a source of amusement for Waggoner 's family and friends , who find it delightfully bizarre that a man who weighs around 300 pounds and dresses down with a passion should pen a guide to etiquette and fashion for the vaunted Esquire magazine . |
| 9 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 10 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 11 | Marie squints like she 's hurt herself and squats down by the chair . |
| 12 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 13 | A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows . |
| 14 | From here it follows the route of the prehistoric Sewstern Lane and drops down to the Grantham Canal . |
| 15 | Without warning , Laverne raises his hands in the air , yells at the top of his voice , and bears down on the snake . |
| 16 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 17 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 18 | It huddles round a flint-towered church and sprawls down to the North Sea — and what a wallop the sea makes as it pounds at the shingle . " |
| 19 | Manure : Cow or horse manure can be composted and breaks down into an inoffensive material that is used as a compost base by a number of manufacturers . |
| 20 | Mops his brow with a sweat band on his left wrist , straightens up now , comes steaming in again to bowl to that 's a quick ball and fends down into the gully , off the back foot , short bouncing steered it down too smooth . |
| 21 | After a few days , the little creature glues its nose on a rock , loses its tail and settles down to a life of sedentary filtration . |
| 22 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 23 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 24 | Letting out a shriek , she races towards them and thumps down on the ground . |
| 25 | about going to India with him as his wife he goes and lays down like a , a granite pillar |
| 26 | The Headless Horseman appears on the carriage and swoops down on the adventurers . |
| 27 | Lorenzo Mancarelli hears the alarm and runs down to the road . |
| 28 | ( He leaps up in the air and comes down in the 'splits " position . |
| 29 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 30 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |