Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample .
2 He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again .
3 He sat down for a few moments to consider his position .
4 Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week .
5 Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’
6 Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again .
7 " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? "
8 Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ?
9 The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track .
10 The thought damped George down for a few miles ; then he asked : ‘ How are the eyes ? ’
11 She may , for example , lay it down for a few seconds while she opens the entrance to her hole .
12 I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr .
13 If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days .
14 They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham .
15 But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis .
16 But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins .
17 ‘ At one stage we thought Freddie was going to get John thrown out but they both calmed down after a few minutes , ’ added the source .
18 New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers .
19 However , most mares settle down after a few weeks .
20 They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know .
21 Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’
22 And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground .
23 Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles .
24 Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons .
25 The engine backs down upon a few trucks , perhaps a single one ; there is a quick manipulation of a coupling stick , and the engine draws off with its insignificant load .
26 Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish !
27 ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet .
28 But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds .
29 Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it .
30 He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup .
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