Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can go down to the supermarket to get the biscuits . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 3 | She can pop down to the basement , make herself a cup of coffee until the colour is removed when she is then encouraged to style her own hair ! |
| 4 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 5 | If you want to change , you create something you can pass down to the young . |
| 6 | Well this you can sit down in the seats , you can look at the you can touch the tables , there 's not a lot of stuff but if if you got any sense of history you can get the feel of the place you know . |
| 7 | From the top you can go down into the old crater via a scree slope which , viewed from the other side , looks impossibly steep ( ’ I 'm never going down there ! ’ ) but is actually quite easy ( the descent is 600ft . ) . |
| 8 | You can go down to the council and rant and rave , you still won t get anything . |
| 9 | Anyway , at half time , Geoff 's standing right at the back of the London Road — and at the back there you can see down to the tea place underneath because some bugger 's smashed out some of the asbestos bit along the back . |
| 10 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 11 | When you have made your list , try to decide — with the help of someone close and understanding if need be — how you can cut down on the pressures , or alter the circumstances , in order to relieve excess stress . |
| 12 | And if you want to cut back you can either cut down on your workforce or you can cut down in the |
| 13 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 14 | Fig15 If you can not get back and the wind is very light , by carefully balancing the rig on the back of the board you can lie down on the front and paddle back |
| 15 | We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’ |
| 16 | We can go down to the beach . ’ |
| 17 | I mean we can go down to the , drive out by the lakes . |
| 18 | We can go down into the village . |
| 19 | ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs . |
| 20 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 21 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 22 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |
| 23 | And they can travel down to the job centre — in vain . |
| 24 | So where , if I 'm putting twelve thousand in for sort of a , a holding fund for , for individuals I might put three thousand into a local society so they can pop down to the Nottingham Building Society for any bits and pieces , and th the , the bulk of it can go into a postal account to , with a better rate . |
| 25 | Maybe now they 've proved they 've got ‘ the skills to pay the bills ’ they can get down to the serious shit they 're obviously capable of . |
| 26 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 27 | He can doss down on the couch . ’ |
| 28 | EUROTUNNEL chairman Sir Alastair Morton is already planning for the moment he can step down from the £9 billion project . |
| 29 | Well he can er , he can come down to the original reduced figure . |
| 30 | He can get down to the nitty gritty and fight inside or he can stand back and box . |