Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 2 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 5 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 8 | There are arguments in favour of analysing costs down to the individual patient . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 12 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 15 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 16 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 17 | Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The slope of a hill stretches down to the playing fields . |
| 20 | Well he jumps down into the fucking lift shaft and he slipped on i oh eh well you fucking bastard you ! |
| 21 | The biggest influence on this behaviour has probably been the large increase in wealth , which in turn boils down to the sharp rise in house prices . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He normally parks down by the old A A. |
| 25 | But I should think knowing he 'll know what 's it like , he normally parks down by the old A A |
| 26 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 27 | From here to the coast the hills are open , the sun pours down on the huge dry fields , the atmosphere is colourless . |
| 28 | Mineralisation in northern Snowdonia occurs mainly as small veins near the contact of the Ordovician Lower Rhyolitic Tuff Formation and the overlying basic Bedded Pyroclastic Formation but extends down to the underlying sediments . |
| 29 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |
| 30 | A very strange way of writing it again but basically it comes down to the following . |