Example sentences of "down and [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , however , we were midway down and into a steep , narrow , rocky section , where it was turn now or go straight into freefall . |
| 2 | He looked me up and down and with a twinkle in his eye said ‘ Oh ! dear , I think I shall have to let you know after all . ’ |
| 3 | A couple of hours later I collected the box , mysteriously taped down and with a mass of weight on top . |
| 4 | Now the pressure is on the big keeper as Leeds start at Elland Road 2–1 down and with a disturbing habit of conceding too many goals this season . |
| 5 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 6 | Three feet down and under a rose-bush . |
| 7 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 8 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 9 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 10 | However , on May 31 there were reports of widespread support among civil servants and soldiers for the military rulers to step down and for a rapid handover of power to a civilian government . |
| 11 | The hijackers jumped down and for a minute it looked as if they were going to try to fight their way out . |
| 12 | Bénezet was sauntering back to the guesthall with his gleanings , when he observed Brother Jerome rounding the box hedge from the garden , head down and in a hurry . |
| 13 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |