Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable . |
| 2 | Does it feel like that down on the field , do you really start to feel frustrated ? |
| 3 | It was n't like that down in the boiler room . |
| 4 | In 1948 down on the River Thames in his home town of Henley he was preparing to race in an Olympic final . |
| 5 | One in each down at the bottom yeah . |
| 6 | But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage . |
| 7 | Cut any large shallots in half down through the root . |
| 8 | The defendants paid the reduced rent from 1941 down to the beginning of 1945 , by which time all the flats in the block were fully let , and continued to pay it thereafter . |
| 9 | Wins followed from Heswall 's Dave Cottrell , Dave Watson of Helsby and Bromborough 's new county match-play champion , Stephen Shaw , who fought back from three down at the turn to beat Ian Ferrie of Alnmouth 2&1 . |
| 10 | He came back from 0-5 down in the third-set tie-breaker and reached match point at 6-5 with a fully-extended diving volley right out of the Becker Wimbledon highlight films . |
| 11 | He came back from 0-5 down in the third-set tiebreaker and reached match point at 6-5 with a fully-extended diving volley right out of the Becker Wimbledon highlight films . |
| 12 | From 2-3 down in the third Baddeley was outplayed by his fleet-footed opponent . |
| 13 | From 2-3 down in the third Baddeley was outplayed as Hall continued to switch the play . |
| 14 | Having taken the opening game 15–4 , but losing the second 14–17 , the Surrey player , 24 , came back from 8–13 down in the decider to claim his place in the last four . |
| 15 | They came from 14-2 down at the break , and Trinity 's failure was compounded by the sending off of Mark Conway . |
| 16 | Apart from this unfortunate monarch , a good deal of interest has always been shown in the site , with a long sequence of systematic excavation from 1906 down to the present day . |
| 17 | Summer gales were rarely of long duration in our experience , and if it blew really hard we used to snug down in the lee of one of the many anchorages and take to the hills for a change . |
| 18 | Manchester-based Swail , the world No53 from Belfast , closed to 4-3 but was on the rack again at 47-0 down in the eighth . |
| 19 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 20 | As for Newry , they are a much better side than last season , and they get credit for refusing to buckle after being reduced to ten men at 2–1 down in the 54th minute . |