Example sentences of "down [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He sat down for a few moments to consider his position . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 5 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 6 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 7 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The thought damped George down for a few miles ; then he asked : ‘ How are the eyes ? ’ |
| 10 | She may , for example , lay it down for a few seconds while she opens the entrance to her hole . |
| 11 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 12 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 16 | However , most mares settle down after a few weeks . |
| 17 | They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know . |
| 18 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 27 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 28 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 29 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 30 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |