Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
2 | Pay in the professional grade of the civil service is better at starting than in the administrative grade , and it is only one step down at the top . |
3 | The biggest Orcs of all are the Warbosses and Warlords , but there are some almost equally big Orcs who consider themselves just one step down from the great leader himself . |
4 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
5 | However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue . |
6 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
7 | Students seem much more inclined to knuckle down to the work and not get involved in quite such dramatic protests as they were before . |
8 | it is also helpful to note down on the card idiomatic phrases using the lexical item in question , or illustrative sentences to show its range of meaning . |
9 | Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users . |
10 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |
11 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
12 | You had a bath , and some time around ten-thirty went down to the kitchen wearing your dressing-gown and slippers to make yourself a mug of Ovaltine . |
13 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
14 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
15 | On the Sunday , regulars from Manchester 's Most Excellent partied down in the Rover 's Return in an enjoyable one-off hostessed by a leopardskin-clad drag version of Bet Lynch . |
16 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
17 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |