Example sentences of "[vb past] down [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was always clear but perishingly cold at that early hour ; later the mists came down and in the afternoon there were often storms of rain and sometimes hail . |
| 2 | In 1902 the house burned down while in the ownership of Mr Charles Julius Knowles . |
| 3 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 4 | Mr Lawson 's mistake was that when formal monetary targeting broke down because of the impossibility of finding any measure of money which bore an accurate relationship with nominal demand , he thought that he could use the exchange rate as an informal target . |
| 5 | The third mechanism , that of the price agreement , upon which management placed much reliance in single-place working , also broke down because of the detailed breakdown of jobs . |
| 6 | Mr Piedboeuf said : ‘ The worst damage was that our computers broke down because of the heavy load . |
| 7 | She just reached down and into the tray for what she knew would be there , and this almost certainly did n't include Masklin . |