Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a German ‘ plane was shot down near Roxton the sergeant navigator who survived was brought in as a patient and I assisted with his reception . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that the 486 based PC 's are gradually coming down in price the evidence suggests that the 386 is still the preferred entry level machine . |
| 3 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 4 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 5 | The day glows phosphorescently ; snow is coming down in chunks the size of a young child 's hand . |
| 6 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 7 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 8 | ‘ I flew down to Cherbourg the day before yesterday and drove out to the Château . |
| 9 | Mark Ilott was in the original 12 , yet when Alan Igglesden broke down at practice the day before the match , they not only called up Phillip DeFreitas , they also played him in front of Ilott . |