Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb base] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward . |
| 3 | Just for a couple of nights in Dieppe : though I sometimes take the car and get down to Rouen . |
| 4 | Not until he had regained his composure did he crawl over to the side of the car and slump down against it , wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand . |
| 5 | Just as soon as you are better " — and she meant both of them — " we 'll get out the carriage and go down to that sweet little shop of Miss Adeane 's to buy bonnets and shawls and order new dresses . |
| 6 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 7 | Look , take this sovereign and go down to the station . |
| 8 | Jed left the expressway at the Baker Park exit and cut down through houses of clapperboard and dull red brick . |
| 9 | At the end of this road , walk a short way over the grassy hillside and look down on the turquoise waters of the bay ( Baia de Abra ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You can take a tea tray up to the wood and slide down to the back garden . |
| 11 | He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life . ’ |
| 12 | we can maximise the space if you get in that leg room of about one millimetre or lie down on people 's laps and then we can build or may be even lie down on |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Slowly we made our way by steamer and train down to Calcutta , to join our families and wonder about the future . |
| 15 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 16 | She would go to her room and take off her skirt and blouse and lie down on the bed . |
| 17 | With curious fitness , fate had it in store for him to marry an heiress and settle down in a castle in Spain — he who had conjured up so many of them in the imagination of junior executives . |
| 18 | Underlay forms a necessary cushion between carpet and floor which helps to even the wear , absorb sound and cut down on heat loss . |
| 19 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 20 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 21 | You can either join us at the relevant Channel port or take advantage of our coach service operating from 49 departure points throughout the U.K. We take the cross-Channel ferry and motor down to the south of France or Costa Brava , in style . |
| 22 | The garden was and still is his paradise and his pride and joy , and whenever Charles has the time he will put on a pair of old trousers , find a spade and get down to some real manual labour . |
| 23 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 24 | Had he walked out of the Lebanese embassy one night and come down with an attack of amnesia ? |
| 25 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 26 | Before starting the repair , remove all debris and loose rust and rub down with a wire brush and abrasive paper |
| 27 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 28 | Either going or coming one should cross the Athos peninsula and look down into monasteries on the Holy Mountain that no female eye may otherwise see . |
| 29 | During each summer 's rainy season , the lake 's waters would spill over its southern rim and slide down towards Florida Bay . |
| 30 | ‘ Your uncle and I think you should get on a train and come down to us right away , darling , ’ she said . |