Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 2 | There are a few of us ( 3 at mo — myself , a mate and Steve Walsh ) who want to come down for the Oxford match from Durham/Newcastle . |
| 3 | George Augustus who lost his last race in Germany in the stewards room is down for the Grosser Preis Von Baden and would have to be supported . |
| 4 | George Augustus who lost his last race in Germany in the stewards room is down for the Grosser Preis Von Baden and would have to be supported . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Rodber packed down for the Midlands against his northern brethren in last season 's Divisional Championship . |
| 8 | She felt dreadfully guilty letting them down about the Rome and Athens trip , but even that they smoothed over , told her not to worry . |
| 9 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 10 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 11 | While the British army was , the French hoped , hurrying north to cope with this initial attack , the same warships — here lay the originality of the plan — would sail north-about round Scotland and down through the North Sea to Ostend . |
| 12 | The secret of their success has been passed down through the Arkells generations . |
| 13 | Tweed 's finger traced a route through Liège to the east and then down through the Ardennes , a remote hilly district . |
| 14 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 15 | The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation . |
| 16 | Van Gelder and I will take the Angelina down through the Kásos Strait . |
| 17 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 18 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 19 | The lady smiled and sat down opposite the Wisharts , she carefully placed the wicker basket on the seat next to her , then folded her arms and composed herself in relaxation . |
| 20 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 21 | The river Trannon is a fast Welsh mountain stream , which flows down towards the Severn in Powys . |
| 22 | Yet the journey continues , down towards the Negev , a dry region of some 4,500 sq.miles , stretching south from Beersheba to the Sinai highlands . |
| 23 | They had parked by the stadium and walked down towards the Campo . |
| 24 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 25 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 26 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 27 | The pound slipped against the German mark and closed nearly six cents down against the US dollar . |
| 28 | But will John Major and the Government go down with the sun-Saturn boat or be swept away by the sun-Pluto tidal wave on the 14th ? |
| 29 | On the same day 100,000 people demonstrated in Leipzig chanting " Down with the SED " and " Germany united fatherland " . |
| 30 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |