Example sentences of "[vb past] down [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 2 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 3 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 4 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 5 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 6 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 7 | The windows of the five-storey buildings , with ornate wrought-iron balconies , peered down condescendingly at the passers-by , smug in their classic mantles of ivy and flowering creepers . |
| 8 | As the regime 's dependence on the Islamic fundamentalists became more and more pronounced , it cracked down hard against the threat of opposition , whether from the left and the unions or from within the military ; following alleged coup attempts in April and September 43 officers accused of involvement were summarily executed [ see pp. 37367 ; 37703 ] . |
| 9 | From there he dropped down lightly to the floor below . |
| 10 | He leapt up the steps , grabbed his valise and hastened down again to the truck . |
| 11 | ‘ We came down just after the surrender and landed in Singapore and marched 20 miles because there was no transport . ’ |
| 12 | GERMANY 'S press came down firmly on the side of the Princess of Wales . |
| 13 | The British Treasury finally came down firmly against the idea of trying to " wriggle through " without the loan . |
| 14 | ‘ Give my thanks to Bartholomew the Englishman , ’ Cranston replied drily , ‘ but it does n't explain why a London merchant came down here in the dark , fastened a rope round a beam and hanged himself . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My lord came down here from the town when he heard of these outlaws passing this way , but never a glimpse of them have we encountered since . |
| 16 | The jet , with one person on board , came down right on the Derbyshire/South Yorkshire border . |
| 17 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 18 | Nathaniel Sherman frowned down resentfully at the dead animal . |
| 19 | The eighteen twenties and thirties saw fashion moving from the Empire line , which was , had a very small bodice and a skirt that flowed down straight to the ground to a lower waisted dress with big sleeves and a shorter skirt , and the impression of a little girl , a little sort of bouncy girl who was all skippy and everything , which reflected really the feeling of optimism at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | His words flowed down smoothly as the black cloth of his soutane . |
| 21 | The air remained unnaturally hot and humid for the time of the year , and the sun shone down again from the brightening sky . |
| 22 | Over the next five days , events behind the scenes moved at breakneck speed , although with Admiral Thomson keeping the lid screwed down tight on the newspapers , radio and newsreels , the British public had little to feed on except rumours , and snippets not to be trusted but disturbingly suggestive — gleaned from German broadcasts . |
| 23 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 24 | She pressed down harder on the gas pedal , coaxing more speed from the car , trying to put more distance between herself and the maniac in the Audi , but whoever was driving the pursuing car had no intention of letting her get away . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on you bastard , ’ she shouted and pressed down hard on the gas . |
| 26 | We got all the details from Peggy , who happened to be there at the time , when she popped down later to the Met Office for a reviving cup of coffee and dash of medicinal brandy . |
| 27 | The great Waka Nathan touched down twice for the All Blacks . |
| 28 | And then , the nightmare seemed to take further bizarre shape again , when she swallowed down hard on the choking hoarseness in her voice , and she forced herself to control that anger when she spoke again : ‘ It 's 1964 . |
| 29 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 30 | And then we used to put some coops there and small runs for them and we used to carry them there , every night because they settled down better in the night than in the daytime . |