Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 3 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 4 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 5 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |
| 6 | The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level . |
| 7 | If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls . |
| 8 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 9 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 10 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 11 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 12 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 13 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 16 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 17 | C.Z. style : Mrs Guest ( main picture ) dresses down for a dressed up evening in Adolfo 's chocolate chenille cardigan jacket and sequin striped T-shirt , with cut velvet georgette skirts and splendid pearls . |
| 18 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 21 | There are arguments in favour of analysing costs down to the individual patient . |
| 22 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 23 | These plate margins are of three types : ( 1 ) divergent , where crustal material moves apart , under the oceans by a process known as sea-floor spreading ; ( 2 ) convergent , where one plate plunges down into the underlying mantle ( also known as subduction zones ) ; ( 3 ) transform faults , where one plate slides laterally with respect to its neighbour , crust being here neither created ( 1 ) nor destroyed ( 2 ) ( Fig. 18.1 ) . |
| 24 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 25 | There 's a swimming pool and sauna , and a path leads down to a private lakeside beach , and being a castle style hotel , there 's plenty of style . |
| 26 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 27 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 28 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 29 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 30 | This means that the already very sleek 1 inch thickness on the top edge slims down to an amazing ″ at its thinnest point . |