Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 2 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 3 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 4 | John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road . |
| 5 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 6 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 7 | The rope , however , was no longer hanging down through the hole in the ceiling . |
| 8 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 9 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 10 | From the crisis over Nato modernisation in March to the casting down of the Wall in November stretch an astonishing nine months in which Germans on both sides have reached out with increasing boldness to take their destiny into their own hands . |
| 11 | The bogging down of the tanks in the mud reminds one of the immobilization of the helicopters of the master of Saddam in Tabas . |
| 12 | The river Trannon is a fast Welsh mountain stream , which flows down towards the Severn in Powys . |
| 13 | Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel . |
| 14 | You will see where the corner between the top of the nostril and the eyebrow is rounded over and the cuts are made both from the nostril up and from the eyebrow down , forming a gradual taper down towards the mouth in the process . |
| 15 | Hess suggested that this took place along the deep ocean trenches , such as the Chile-Peru Trench , which runs parallel to the west coast of South America , and that the relatively ‘ cold ’ oceanic crust dived down beneath the continents in these zones , descending deep into the mantle to complete the convective cycle . |
| 16 | A big old one , down against the wall in the far corner . |
| 17 | Cut away and down behind the bud in a gentle curve . |
| 18 | It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork . |
| 19 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 20 | Having gone down with the monarchy in the 1640s and learnt from that experience that its fortunes were closely dependent on those of the crown , the established church was more than ever determined to shore up the monarchy as a means of guaranteeing its own survival . |
| 21 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 22 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
| 23 | Maurice , in the way of business , knew too many , rather than too few , people , but when he imagined living without friends , he sat down with the whisky in the dark . |
| 24 | She came down with the baby in her arms , took one look at Vincent , and burst into tears . |
| 25 | We are doing a study of Debenham Church in History at the moment and went down into the village in the lesson time to draw the different types of windows in the building . |
| 26 | Owen slid down into the courtyard in a small shower of mud and masonry . |
| 27 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 28 | One day Cassowary flopped down into the clearing in front of Bower-bird 's pretty little house . |
| 29 | They stared down into the pit in horrified fascination . |
| 30 | When Gloria climbed in beside her , they both rolled down into the dip in the middle of the bed . |