Example sentences of "down [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did write it down for her in the list . |
| 2 | You wo n't find the answer written down for you in the bowl of a compass — I can tell you that . |
| 3 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 4 | Now he came into the dining-room where I was working and sat down opposite me at the table . |
| 5 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 6 | Suddenly it swooped down towards something in the bog and vanished from sight . |
| 7 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 8 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 9 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I 'll keep her down with me for the night . ’ |
| 11 | His ship was turned into a minesweeper in the war , and he went down with her off the east coast . |
| 12 | He nodded , and reaching out for her hand , he led her through into the sitting-room and sat down with her on the settee opposite the picture . |
| 13 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 14 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 15 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 16 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 17 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 18 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 19 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 20 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 21 | The Lord Chancellor , travelling down with us in the train , took Mollie a bet of 5 to 5s. that he would not stand . |
| 22 | " Down with you into the marsh , you spiteful old foster-mother ! |
| 23 | ‘ A Scotch , please — plenty of soda , ’ said Greg , and settled down with it into the sofa . |
| 24 | There were any number of laden country folk in this concourse , and within the hour there would be still more crowding down upon them from the town , after the market . |
| 25 | Discretion would appear to be ‘ the better part ’ ; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep — probably vertical — cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down . |
| 26 | Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them . |
| 27 | The lover of power is attracted to the viewpoint of the strongest , the one who can , even if he graciously refrains , force others to act against their wills ; he may himself achieve power , or fantasize it , or in consciousness of impotence prefer to look down on himself through the eyes of real or imaginary conquerors . |
| 28 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 29 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 30 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |