Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 2 | When the tides of magic flow strongly from the broken warp gate the Realm of Chaos expands , the Northern Wastes are swallowed up , and the armies of Chaos pour down through the Troll Country into Kislev and the Empire . |
| 3 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 4 | The vineyards of Bergères-les-Vertus are largely an extension of the lower slopes of Vertus reaching down to the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 5 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 6 | Then , he had become aware of a gout of light pouring down through the trees , and an ache of green against his eyes . |
| 7 | The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him . |
| 8 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 9 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 10 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 11 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 12 | Th the strong highlight on the reflection on the water obviously is a thing which makes the picture as , and also the , the sort of rays of sun coming down through the cloud . |
| 13 | By section 3(1) of the same Act the European Court is recognized as being the ultimate determinant of the principles of law laid down by the Treaties and subsequent EEC legislation . |
| 14 | On the basis of the much more complete seismic data available by the late 196()s it was being suggested that the inclined zone of seismicity ( the Wadati-Benioff zone ) associated with island arcs and active continental margin mountain belts could be explained by the existence of a slab of lithosphere plunging down into the mantle . |
| 15 | A large photograph of Helen looked down on the mourners . |
| 16 | There was low cloud , white drifts of mist close down on the ice . |
| 17 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 18 | Several nearby windows came up and a number of guns flew down into the street . |
| 19 | In the UK , as in many other countries , however , this trend of deconcentration slowed down in the later 1970s . |
| 20 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 21 | I mean what what sort of things happen down on the ground ground level ? |
| 22 | The basic solution is first to restrict the flow of water percolating down into the aquifers by planting trees , preferably native species , on the higher ground . |
| 23 | Thus a stream of water percolating down into the Earth can result in Old Faithful , a little stream , or no surface manifestation . |
| 24 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 25 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 26 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 27 | I leant against a chestnut , one of a bib of trees leading down to the Wild Garden . |
| 28 | Back to the edge of the island and there was already a crowd of people looking down at the rocks . |
| 29 | And that erm led to a lot of people coming down to the probation office , asking , you know , what if anything they could do about the noise up there . |
| 30 | As he drew closer he could see the outlines of people sitting down under the shade of a tree near the river . |