Example sentences of "down [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not all good : you can never find a toothbrush in our house and you dare n't put your keys down for even an instance . |
| 2 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 3 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 4 | she 'll sit down with perhaps a pen in her hand and then go up and |
| 5 | I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’ |
| 6 | I can sit down in 'ere a bit , ca n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever |
| 8 | Lacrosse can focus on a small area and resolve details down to perhaps a metre , or sacrifice clarity to cover a larger area . |
| 9 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 10 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
| 11 | They were immensely hairy , had breasts that hung down at least a yard and were used by the males as beasts of burden . |
| 12 | Even worse hit was Nissan , with September sales down by nearly a half from 11,871 to 6058 . |
| 13 | Q3 losses down by almost a half at $2.4m produced a deficit $14.8m lower at $5.2m . |