Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] down [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But I am trying not to get too down as at least I have a job to go to . ’
2 Heading up high means that it is difficult for anyone to pass since you can always bear away down on to them , forcing them to sail in your dirty wind .
3 And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’
4 What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch .
5 At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets .
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