Example sentences of "down and [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's the moaning you can do at the top , or the relief of getting down and into the warmth . |
| 3 | She just reached down and into the tray for what she knew would be there , and this almost certainly did n't include Masklin . |
| 4 | With a gallant wave of one hand he invited Melissa to sit down and with the other placed a small pile of well-thumbed paperbacks on a table in front of her . |
| 5 | The door to his own apartment was the only one in the hall on this level , a few yards down and on the left . |
| 6 | The square , window-type frame gives practice with moving in and out as well as up , down and over the top of , and there is experience of being enclosed within a three-dimensional shape . |
| 7 | Desperate to charge our batteries , we linger as long as we dare before racing off down and over the glacier , through the boulders , and onto the base-camp grass . |
| 8 | With this structure it is possible to do a search within a machine , passing up , down and across the tree structure to determine all comprising parts . |
| 9 | Cases may be transferred up , down and across the court system subject to certain criteria . |
| 10 | Public law cases may be transferred up , down and across the court system where this will avoid delay , facilitate consolidation or allow the case to be heard at an appropriate level . |
| 11 | Thus , if there is a two-dimensional paradigm in the language , it must be drilled both down and across the paradigm . |
| 12 | Over several years volunteers from schools , colleges , and County Youth Clubs , together with many adult enthusiasts , have worked at cutting and clearing trees and undergrowth , uncovering surface works and piers , cleaning channels and tracks and in constructing a path down and across the site to enable visitors to explore as much of the Plane as possible . |
| 13 | I N like this , down and along the top like a bridge |
| 14 | The lower cell will see movement down and to the right . |
| 15 | The upper cell will see movement down and to the right and the lower cell will see movement up and to the right . |
| 16 | Unionist MPs made much capital from the embarrassment of Liberals who had to vote the Bill down and from the ineffectiveness of John Burns , one of the weakest of the Liberal ministers . |
| 17 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 18 | Time a week or so after christmas has come you 're you 're glad to get them down and out the way . |
| 19 | And he used to go to these houses Dunoon and them and er all the way down and around the promenade around the south parade and er and he used to go these houses with all these and then there were some er black and white minstrels in the valley . |
| 20 | It was always clear but perishingly cold at that early hour ; later the mists came down and in the afternoon there were often storms of rain and sometimes hail . |
| 21 | Certain cultural distinctions were breaking down and in the anxiety which this provoked we can read the effects of tar-reaching historical change . |