Example sentences of "[vb -s] down from the [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 A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope .
3 ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties .
4 The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish .
5 Two hundred miles from land the fierce Amazon river stained the dark water darker , red with the silt it carries down from the secret jungles and mountains of the New World .
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