Example sentences of "[vb -s] down in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 2 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 3 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 4 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 5 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 6 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 7 | Sock Shop shuts down in the US . |
| 8 | Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac . |
| 9 | It 'll be after 2am before she bunks down in The Hitman coach on the way back to London . |
| 10 | I can sit back and watch the day go by , and when the float dips down in the water I know there 's a fish pulling at the line . |
| 11 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 12 | Although , therefore , Dicey 's sharp distinction between the application and interpretation of statute suffices for most practical purposes , it ultimately breaks down in the face of changing views of the contours of the political community or of serious threats to the central tenets of liberal democracy . |
| 13 | If swallowed , the substance rapidly breaks down in the swan 's gizzard , and passes out with no harm done . |
| 14 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 15 | jumps down in the rock rose , scattering pink |
| 16 | Then she scans the barren landscape in all directions , crouches down in the shadow of the cab , and pees . |
| 17 | if she parks down in the door and he comes up |
| 18 | It lays down in the middle of the road ! |
| 19 | Our wool used to go to a firm called Ackroyds down in the textile area of the West Riding of Yorkshire , but years before the war a gentleman called Watson Taylor would visit the dale . |
| 20 | He turned in a sparkling performance for Derry against eventual All Ireland champions Down in the Ulster semi-final at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 21 | ( He leaps up in the air and comes down in the 'splits " position . |
| 22 | You know , again as you said earlier on it all comes down in the end to the head ! |
| 23 | In terms of gas concentrations and what comes down in the rain , rural parts of central and eastern England are similar to northern Germany . |
| 24 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 25 | Weak , sensitive back ; slides down in the bed . |