Example sentences of "down [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could have given you an introduction to Professor Vanchetti in Rome , ’ said Gervase Fairfax , who was Penelope 's other neighbour , ‘ but unfortunately he dropped down dead the other day . ’ |
| 2 | Besides , the causes of some 60% of birth defects have yet to be discovered : it can not be assumed that all of them travel down only the female line . |
| 3 | Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen . |
| 4 | This cuts down both the necessary search and the number of candidates found to be allowable . |
| 5 | A few thin snow flakes began to fall , drifting silently down out the leaden sky . |
| 6 | I do n't know our , our , very rare we 'll ring em John was down well the same day as she dropped that little potty off for our Kay |
| 7 | Techniques like antisepsis ( developed by Lister [ 1827–1912 ] around 1865 ) , ‘ pasteurisation ’ or other methods of safeguarding organic products from the intrusions of microbes , and inoculation were at hand , and the arguments and results sufficiently palpable to break down even the entrenched hostility of the medical profession . |
| 8 | The curtains in the flat were drawn , cutting down even the poor light that remained from outside . |
| 9 | Oh , he was down here the other week , you know . |
| 10 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 11 | I 'll probably go gas , when they get gas down there the only thing that |
| 12 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 13 | So the man told him to be down there the same time next night and he returned . |