Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 2 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 3 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 4 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 5 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 6 | Alternatively nip down to the beach , or stroll down to the centre of Puerto del Carmen where the nightlife buzzes , and the cafés and bars stay open until the small hours before returning to your very own home from home apartment , complete with facilities , terrace and garden . |
| 7 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 8 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 9 | In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano . |
| 10 | To the left of the steps , constructed from solid railway sleepers that drop down to the lawn , we have suggested a raised bed , this being filled with soil from the levelled area below . |
| 11 | The main access is via steps that drop down from the street between walls that tend to increase visual tension . |
| 12 | The great Te Deum and Jubilate in D are generously supplemented with four major verse anthems-My Heart Is Inditing , O Sing Unto The Lord , They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships and Praise The Lord , O Jerusalem . |
| 13 | The fields that go down to the railway ? ’ |
| 14 | " They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters ; these men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep … so when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble He delivereth them out of this distress . |
| 15 | Beds that fold down from the wall when they are needed have lost their makeshift image and have been updated to a new smooth efficiency and now come complete with a wall of closets or wardrobes . |
| 16 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 17 | The ones that come down to the knee . ’ |
| 18 | They know , too , all the secret places of the bank : the nest of sandbags built during the War for the Home Guard ; the ruins of Marsh Edge Farm that lies in an angle of the tip hidden from the town ; the steps , cut in the slag-face , that lead down to the Ironworks Pier from which they can watch the boats . |
| 19 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 20 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 21 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 22 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 23 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 24 | ‘ Come and sit down in the bar , ’ says Mrs Bixman . |
| 25 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 26 | So I get up and pull my dressing-gown on and head down to the cold , dusty lobby where the phone is . |
| 27 | The Welshman sent Critchley over within three minutes of the second half and was in support to take Tait 's pass and touch down in the 56th minute , with Holliday 's goal setting up an aborbing final quarter . |
| 28 | If you include a Boss and Big Boss in your front rank this will reduce the number of vulnerable Goblins fighting and cut down on the number of casualties you suffer . |
| 29 | The reduction in the numbers visiting the gardens has allowed the grass to remain green and cut down on the amount of litter dropped and graffiti scribbled . |
| 30 | Voters narrowly rejected this scheme , which would have devolved responsibility to the communal level of authority , and cut down on the amount of incineration . |