Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 2 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 3 | I mean normally er this morning for instance , normally I park on the big car park down near the the river there , |
| 4 | With great skill he managed to get the overladen aircraft down on the desert , but at dawn they discovered German traffic on a nearby road . |
| 5 | The line went from Munday 's Hill Pit down to the Leighton to Hatfield line ( L.N.W.R. ) |
| 6 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |
| 7 | No doubt it will suit company car users down to the ground . |
| 8 | What fun you children had skating on the tennis courts down in the valley , and putting on plays and dances with the Claydons . |
| 9 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 10 | At Episkopi , he found one of the Martini brothers down by the warehouses . |
| 11 | And according to The Boy Nigel down in the yard , he is probably right . |
| 12 | He looked out of the aeroplane window down at the warm blue sea below . |
| 13 | In an effort to reduce it , the government increased interest rates , which restricted growth to an estimated 6.5 per cent in 1990 , almost a full percentage point down from the 1989 figure . |
| 14 | Issues of class conflict within the group were to remain largely subordinate , as the matter of the nature and defence of loyalism itself was to dominate the scene right down to the present day . |
| 15 | That mistaken arrogance , too , had let South Africa down off the field since boorish behaviour at receptions had earned the tour party a bad reputation . |
| 16 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 17 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 18 | I think the most interesting point here is the tax charge which is two percentage points down on the year before and that really is prior year adjustments , there are other pluses and minuses but that 's a significant reason . |
| 19 | She put the telephone receiver down on the invitation to lunch with a quiet face , but an excited heart . |
| 20 | Lay the sinker plate down on the edge of a table , press down and turn the screw in a sharp , snapping movement — try not to ‘ chew up ’ the head of the screw . |
| 21 | The Regent desired him , as proposer of the scheme , and as having already served with the Earl of Dunbar , to accompany Sir Simon Fraser down to the Earl 's camp near Berwick , there to help that man inform Dunbar of the decisions made and to assist in convincing him to take over the keepership of Berwick Castle . |
| 22 | Full provision will be made for all liabilities of the business relating to any period before the Transfer date discharged or agreed to be discharged by the Purchaser at any time during the period from the Transfer date down to the date upon which the Completion accounts have become final and binding . |
| 23 | Europe wants shops to give information on the efficiency of all white goods , televisions and hi-fis , computers , ovens , lights and other household appliances down to the smallest toaster . |
| 24 | Solid modelling thus allows the domain handling approach to be extended from the initial gross object definition level right down to the elemental description of local geometry by use of primitives . |
| 25 | And there were some birds swimming-floating down towards the camera , they were brown . |
| 26 | Cornelius kept his foot right down on the floor . |
| 27 | Enthusiasm from shift operators down to the management was absolutely superb . |
| 28 | His professional engineering career started on the truck side , and he sees his task mainly as miniaturisation to bring all the advantages of power and economy enjoyed by the heavy goods diesel driver down to the size where they can also be of benefit to the motorist . |
| 29 | If a Burton man turned his empty beer-pot upside down on the table they knew there was going to be trouble . |
| 30 | Dust your working surface with icing sugar or cornflour to prevent sticking and place the cake upside down on the surface . |