Example sentences of "[vb past] down [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 2 | But he thought the Seasiders played better against Blackpool last Saturday when they went down 2–1 to the Fourth Division leaders . |
| 3 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 4 | Widnes , who had won the official version in thrilling style against Canberra Raiders before more than 30,000 fans at Old Trafford four days earlier , went down 31-6 to the Eagles , a team formed only five years ago and without a permanent home . |
| 5 | They were beaten 3-2 in the semi-finals by the eventual winners , Berlin , and then went down 4-2 against the English side , Hightown , in the play-off for the bronze medals . |
| 6 | DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition . |
| 7 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 8 | The under 14s , meanwhile , beat Wales 5-1 yesterday but the seniors , including Ulster 's Ken Rowe , who lost 6-4 5-7 6-0 to Shaun Leleu , went down 4-1 to the same opponents to finish the weekend series without a win to their credit . |
| 9 | They disappeared down one of the side streets . |
| 10 | Leftarm spinners Masood Anwaar and Leigh Beaumont , sent down 45 of the 55 overs in the afternoon . |
| 11 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 12 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 13 | A heavy gust of wind tore down one of the blades of Europe 's largest turbine , the VAWT 850 , at National Power 's Camarthen Bay Wind Energy Centre . |
| 14 | Anti-aircraft artillery shot down one of the Iranian aircraft and captured two crewmen . |