Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 2 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 3 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 4 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 5 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
| 6 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 7 | Then some of them sat down on the sand and began to drink . |
| 8 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 9 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 10 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 11 | Amaranth was wearing what appeared to be a blue-black overcoat with square shoulders , the skirts of which came down to the knee . |
| 12 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 13 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |
| 14 | For those of us staring down into the yawning chasm of the generation gap it really is n't so bad , you know . |
| 15 | At the weekend there was a bunch of us playing down in the alley-way near Julie 's house . |
| 16 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 17 | Mr Sheffield said the acute coronary attack suffered by Mrs McGinley would have resulted in her falling down in the path of the car . |
| 18 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 19 | I had a phone call from so she said to me come down to the admin , so I went down and she 'd opened the letter and give it back to us . |
| 20 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 21 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |
| 22 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |