Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they come down for the course and they do n't have one . |
| 2 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |
| 3 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 4 | Asik immediately reached down for the delicacy and carefully slipped it into his shorts . |
| 5 | Gunn was in splendid form : it was just past 7 o'clock , he was the 19th caddie to get his name down for the day and , almost certainly , he would work two jobs before nightfall . |
| 6 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 7 | But it is no secret that the Government 's hopes rested on a thumbs down for the DUP and Sinn Fein , both considered formidable obstacles on the road to a political accommodation . |
| 8 | Well let's go down for the jars and then they can , see |
| 9 | Bob 's put down for the Wednesday and the Thursday off , so it 's the Tuesday and the Friday I 'm stuck on the second week |
| 10 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 11 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 12 | According to the Life of Thomas Hardy ‘ they found lodgings at the house of an invalided captain of smacks and ketches ; and Hardy , suspending his house-hunting , settled down for the autumn and winter to finish his fifth novel , The Hand of Ethelberta ’ . |
| 13 | The seneschal looked briefly at the quivering attendant being looked after by the others , then he shrugged and said something to the under-cook , who quickly got back down off the stool and turned to the others . |
| 14 | The big cat climbed stiffly down off the desk and squatted on a box of cat-sand under a corner table , staring straight ahead with a sublime conviction that it was invisible . |
| 15 | I jumped down off the wall and joined my sister who was standing behind them listening . |
| 16 | That 's what we 're aiming for here — trying to make individually-designed guitars with real integrity that you can take right down off the shelf and use at a gig . ’ |
| 17 | And these take it down off the counter and do it like this , and I 'm getting more strength in my hands , now , because I 'm using them to do more . |
| 18 | Military and associated groups are not entirely blameless , as testified by the number of ration pack items discarded and it should be the duty of all in charge of such groups to ensure rubbish is brought down off the hill or from campsites . |
| 19 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 20 | Foreshadowing the pressure his party will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’ |
| 21 | Foreshadowing the pressure that the Liberal Democrats will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’ |
| 22 | She felt dreadfully guilty letting them down about the Rome and Athens trip , but even that they smoothed over , told her not to worry . |
| 23 | You can now stand the garter bar upright in the needle groove of your ribber , with the knitting hanging down between the ribber and the knitter . |
| 24 | Pull the ends of the yarn down between the beds and continue knitting . |
| 25 | Then the boat went down between the waves and she could see only mountains of wild water everywhere . |
| 26 | He paced up and down between the scullery and the living-room as if on the deck of a ship . |
| 27 | A long white strip of cloth linked them all from hand a hand as they made their way down through the sleet and the open snowy fields . |
| 28 | The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds . |
| 29 | I pulled out of the eight , stamped the accelerator down through the floor and drove for a gate . |
| 30 | In his essay ‘ The Novelist at the Crossroads ’ , Lodge sees most British authors hesitating between , or combining in a variety of ways , the possibilities of a main road of tradition — ‘ the realist novel … coming down through the Victorians and Edwardians ’ — and alternatives offered by modernism and the developments that have followed it ( Lodge 1971 : 18 ) . |