Example sentences of "[vb infin] down [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’ |
| 2 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 3 | Every time I heard the wind rustling in the bushes or rattling the slates I 'd duck down under the covers , thinking of hooded ghosts stomping through the garden — or through the wall . |
| 4 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 5 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 6 | Northern prop Roy Powell 's attempt to kick the ball dead miscued , allowing Ropati to dash through and touch down beneath the posts . |
| 7 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 8 | How do you stop it getting into the environment , because if you hose it down it will wash down into the drains wo n't it ? |
| 9 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 10 | ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs . |
| 11 | The new regulatory body for the direct sales channel should cut down on the risks involved in buying a computer direct |
| 12 | When you have made your list , try to decide — with the help of someone close and understanding if need be — how you can cut down on the pressures , or alter the circumstances , in order to relieve excess stress . |
| 13 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |
| 14 | ‘ Would never go down to the cellars like everyone else when the air-raid siren went . |
| 15 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 16 | Do you go down to the baths every night ? |
| 17 | We used to some of us other boys we 'd go down to the banks and the Winter time . |
| 18 | Do n't you ever go down to the hostels or down |
| 19 | Now , shall we go down to the police station ? |
| 20 | You ca n't go down to the shops , you ca n't go round your mum 's , you ca n't go to your auntie 's , you 're losing your freedom . |
| 21 | She would not go down for the fireworks . |
| 22 | Well let's go down for the jars and then they can , see |
| 23 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 24 | ‘ Why did n't she go down with the others ? ’ |
| 25 | But how will it go down with the fans like England soccer heroes Gary Lineker and Des Walker or film stars Liz Taylor and Joan Collins ? |
| 26 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 27 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 28 | Stopping on the lonely road , I watched the sun go down in the trees behind Thornfield , and then in the silence I heard a horse approaching . |
| 29 | So long as Americans pay outrageous sums for cocaine , traffickers will continue to let enough crumbs trickle down to the farmers to make growing coffee or citrus an unattractive alternative . |
| 30 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |