Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 2 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 3 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 4 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 5 | Many of East Germany 's energy-efficient industries are expected to shut down in the aftermath of the country 's reunification . |
| 6 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 7 | Conditions are expected to settle down by the middle of next week . |
| 8 | To the east the Mediterranean Fleet had also come under air attack during 8th. from Rhodes-based Axis aircraft , and heavy air fighting had ensued with six of the attackers being claimed shot down by the defending Fulmars from the carrier ‘ Formidable ’ . |
| 9 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 10 | Master of Ceremonies was Branch Chairman Malcolm Cork , Booth White , who has decided to stand down from the position . |
| 11 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 12 | They 're supposed to It 's supposed to be written written down in the in the book . |
| 13 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 14 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 15 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 16 | There was talk of building an air-raid shelter for 250,000 people under Hampden Park , and while plans were being made to dig down beneath the city , in another park , Bellahouston , work was far advanced on the tremendous Empire Exhibition and a tower that would rise 300 feet above Bellahouston Hill , 470 feet above sea-level . |
| 17 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 18 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got to go down to the off-licence later . ’ |
| 20 | They really ought to have got moved down to the bottom . |
| 21 | It 's not the appointments that matter , it 's the activity around the appointment , the fact that I 'm gon na get up on Monday morning , I 'm gon na go training , and once I 've done that , I 've got to nip down to the library , O K , and look up that electoral role , I 've got an appointment , and then I 'm gon na go back to the office , I 'm gon na to do my mail shots and then I 'm gon na to go home , mow the lawn , have a bit of tea , and then I 'm gon na to my approaching , and then I 'm gon na go , yes , on that appointment there . |
| 22 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 23 | One can distinguish a typical trajectory — shown moving down from the upper left of the figure — as married couples reach the statutory retirement-age . |
| 24 | Foreshadowing the pressure his party will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’ |
| 25 | Foreshadowing the pressure that the Liberal Democrats will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’ |
| 26 | Now , you 've got to get down to the real nitty gritty : how will the stage look , what about the sound system , who presses what buttons for the audio-visuals and when … ? |
| 27 | We 've got to get down to the nitty gritty and fight . ’ |
| 28 | Des and Rufus have agreed to stay down in the outboard and wait . |
| 29 | The people I had helped to dream down from the heavens . |
| 30 | You 've got to push down on the bike to get your seating right so when you 're on the throttle it 's all hooked up together . |