Example sentences of "and [vb -s] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 2 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 3 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 4 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 5 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 6 | The last is a source of amusement for Waggoner 's family and friends , who find it delightfully bizarre that a man who weighs around 300 pounds and dresses down with a passion should pen a guide to etiquette and fashion for the vaunted Esquire magazine . |
| 7 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 8 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 9 | Marie squints like she 's hurt herself and squats down by the chair . |
| 10 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 11 | From here it follows the route of the prehistoric Sewstern Lane and drops down to the Grantham Canal . |
| 12 | Without warning , Laverne raises his hands in the air , yells at the top of his voice , and bears down on the snake . |
| 13 | It huddles round a flint-towered church and sprawls down to the North Sea — and what a wallop the sea makes as it pounds at the shingle . " |
| 14 | Mops his brow with a sweat band on his left wrist , straightens up now , comes steaming in again to bowl to that 's a quick ball and fends down into the gully , off the back foot , short bouncing steered it down too smooth . |
| 15 | After a few days , the little creature glues its nose on a rock , loses its tail and settles down to a life of sedentary filtration . |
| 16 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 17 | Letting out a shriek , she races towards them and thumps down on the ground . |
| 18 | The Headless Horseman appears on the carriage and swoops down on the adventurers . |
| 19 | Lorenzo Mancarelli hears the alarm and runs down to the road . |
| 20 | ( He leaps up in the air and comes down in the 'splits " position . |