Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 3 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 4 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 5 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 6 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 7 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 8 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 9 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 10 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 11 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 12 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 13 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 14 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 15 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 16 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 17 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 18 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 19 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 20 | For example , an elder ( like the rest of us ) will get up , go to the toilet , go through familiar washing routines , make tea , collect the paper from the front door , and perhaps walk down to the shops or catch the bus into town , with competence and efficiency . |
| 21 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 22 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 23 | Afterwards , she felt very much let down by the family 's decision , saying she would have preferred to die rather than live in such a disabled condition . |
| 24 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 25 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 26 | Here the eye is naturally drawn down to the urn at the end of the vista . |
| 27 | The poll tax is quite rightly played down by the Tories , but what has this debacle cost the nation ? |
| 28 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 29 | Do n't get so bogged down in the trivia of life you have n't the time or inclination to branch out and see what 's on offer . |
| 30 | She is so slowed down by the dope slamming fifty visions of hell at her a second that she finds it hard to fight , hard to believe in her own anger , hard to believe in what she 's doing . |