Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 5 | The rope , however , was no longer hanging down through the hole in the ceiling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A big old one , down against the wall in the far corner . |
| 10 | Cut away and down behind the bud in a gentle curve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She came down with the baby in her arms , took one look at Vincent , and burst into tears . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Owen slid down into the courtyard in a small shower of mud and masonry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One day Cassowary flopped down into the clearing in front of Bower-bird 's pretty little house . |
| 19 | They stared down into the pit in horrified fascination . |
| 20 | When Gloria climbed in beside her , they both rolled down into the dip in the middle of the bed . |
| 21 | No sharing and rolling down into the dip in the middle . |
| 22 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 23 | Rex took a deep breath , sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit . |
| 24 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 25 | Sunlight poured down from the window in the upper ante-room , to the twin flights of the stairs . |
| 26 | The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back . |
| 27 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 28 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 29 | Yeah the thing is I 've got ta write them down in the order in which they appear . |
| 30 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |