Example sentences of "of [noun pl] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission |
| 2 | Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square . |
| 3 | Tuppe found a pair of knickers down behind the back seat . |
| 4 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 5 | I often think that perhaps putting the hub of the sails in , more or less in the centre of the picture perhaps , not the best place , but I think because in this case , we 've got a lot of trees down to the bottom here . |
| 6 | And what does say about that ? says that we will keep the level of charges down in the now privately owned companies providing public utilities so there 'll be nothing for dividends . |
| 7 | The man looked round the bar before marching over to a group of men down at the end of the counter . |
| 8 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |
| 9 | He slammed a pile of papers down on the table . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |
| 11 | What a prank to capture some upstart tech gang member , or some undercity riff-raff , and throw him into the heat sink itself to slide or tumble or simply fall free , down , down , tens of kilometres down into the inferno . |
| 12 | It so happens that the names Upehull , Upsall and Upshall occur in the records of one very small village — the first in a lay subsidy roll of 1327 , the second in a manorial court roll of November 1550 , and the third in a number of documents down to the latest twentieth-century electoral rolls . |
| 13 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 14 | ‘ Tulagai , if you do n't want to go you can always stay here and run caravans of supplies down to the escarpment camp . |
| 15 | Millions of miles down in the black , twisted heart of me I do . |