Example sentences of "could [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below .
2 He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river .
3 She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels .
4 On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft .
5 Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks .
6 From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses .
7 He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven .
8 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 .
9 We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore .
10 From here I found , as I had hoped , that I could see down to the shore at the point where Neil had told me he wanted to work .
11 Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her .
12 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 .
13 said of driving all the way back round to collect them , he said I could walk down to the Jolly Farmers
14 In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site .
15 She could go down into the town centre and look at the shops , have a cup of coffee somewhere , get back to her mother-in-law by four .
16 Then we could go down on the line and wave it , ’ said Peter .
17 They could go down to the Sain Caernarfon League .
18 And again colleagues , it would assist , er , if movers and seconders and supporting speakers and speakers who 're speaking on behalf of the regions , if they could come down to the front .
19 Anybody else who 's coming up between twenty nine and thirty four , if you could come down to the rostrum colleagues .
20 Priority in debate to Southern and Northern regions so if all the additional speakers could come down to the front , be very much obliged .
21 If speakers could come down to the front please Colleagues , settle now please .
22 I call Birmingham Region to move two three six and again colleagues , if supporting speakers could come down to the front it will assist .
23 Mentioned earlier , colleagues that erm , there are a number of motions , so if the movers and supporting speakers could come down to the rostrum , it would be er helpful .
24 You could come down on the the first half and I can jump and that 's like Wrestle Mania .
25 Miss Monroe could come down in the morning and see her then .
26 If he could do this then surely he could come down from the cross and save himself .
27 He could drive down to The Randolph , and sort out that lying sod Ashenden !
28 Even if I could get down to the required , modest depth , what could I possibly about the swamp ?
29 Now if we could get down to the sale of this house and the contents … ?
30 When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again .
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