Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reception , in a vast lightwell running north-south , is constantly catching light reflected down on the arcade of shops and a cafe beneath where patients may , in effect , ‘ go out ’ . |
| 2 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 3 | Clearly Whiteson is suspicious that Duran may not have shed 30lb to get down to the middleweight limit for Leonard by wholly natural methods . |
| 4 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 5 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 6 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 7 | In a gallery of stalactites , baobab roots seeking water winding down from the roof , we asked Sapan what the island was called . |
| 8 | Those who prepare courses of initial teaching training must ( in addition to meeting conditions laid down by the CNAA ) also satisfy the requirements of the Government 's Advisory committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers ( CATE ) . |
| 9 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 10 | There was no prom , and neatly cut grass grew down to the black shiny shore . |
| 11 | I have demonstrated clearly how we will bring Government borrowing down in the years ahead . |
| 12 | Tess Lemmon went down to the farm , looked a pig in the eye and , in the spirit of the continuing BBC1 series ‘ Lifesense ’ , went away with a new pig perspective . |
| 13 | ‘ Get Hawkins to go down in the cellar and help thee , and mind th'do n't get up to any pranks . ’ |
| 14 | Photographs may be prepared by placing negative sheets or printing papers face down on the glass viewing plate . |
| 15 | Moving parts low down in the horn 's compass are ineffective . |
| 16 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 17 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 18 | Procedural due process is a matter of the right procedures for judging whether some citizen has violated laws laid down by the political procedures ; if we accept it as a virtue , we want courts and similar institutions to use procedures of evidence , discovery , and review that promise the right level of accuracy and otherwise treat people accused of violation as people in that position ought to be treated . |
| 19 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 20 | A transmitter sends radar waves down through the concrete and into the soil below . |
| 21 | He said that his men were held back by the heat of the fire , which stripped plaster from the walls , burnt floorboards and brought ceilings crashing down onto the ground floor of the semidetached house . |
| 22 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 23 | I saw people running down from the house , I heard some shots , but that was all . |
| 24 | The Home Secretary Michael Howard has announced measures to cut down on the amount of police paperwork and put more officers back onto the streets . |
| 25 | The porridge tasted very good ( 48-hour ration pack style ) and hard tack biscuits ground down into the tea , not too bad . |
| 26 | They 've grown fat on gold , not the Garrimperos They 're a strong political lobby and would never allow business to close down over the little matter of mercury . |
| 27 | The announcement of the Westcott redundancies came as monthly figures were released showing unemployment coming down across the region . |
| 28 | These are arrived at using criteria set down by the Joint Negotiating Committee for Chief Officers of Local Authorities . |
| 29 | Generals , officers , non-commissioned officers , and men fought shoulder to shoulder down to the last shot . |
| 30 | I eased my Way through the crowds that were watching Midwinter climb down from the platform . |