Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 2 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 3 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 4 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 5 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 6 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 7 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 8 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |
| 9 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 10 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 11 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 12 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 13 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 14 | And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit |
| 15 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 16 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 17 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 18 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 19 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 20 | Lady Macduff goes down to the meadow |
| 21 | Nearing the narrows of the loch where the ferry operated , the road climbs a long incline through a forest , emerging in open country and here a branch , formerly the main road , goes down to the hotel and other buildings grouped forlornly around the old ferry pier : it is always sad to see an enterprise that has served its purpose well and has now had its day . |
| 22 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 23 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 24 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 25 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 26 | But not to go all the way to Saint-Palais ; rather , after eight miles , turn to the right , over a crest , along a very minor road that goes down to the hamlet and caves of Isturits . |
| 27 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 28 | Between the admirable houses in the so-called Quartier de la Barre , which goes down to the harbour mouth , and the sandy beach , a dike has been built up , twelve or fifteen feet high , to protect the town from the waves . |
| 29 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 30 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |