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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	Surrounded by extensive and enclosed grounds it is perfect for children who can play in complete freedom while their elders relax on the lawns that gently slope down to an attractive swimming pool .
8	She had evidently only come down to the foyer to collect her mail .
9	The trapdoor in the floor is intact and a set of stone steps below lead down to the basement , location 3a .
10	Slowly relax down to the floor .
11	But this good control , plus the fine grip and limited body roll , are badly let down in the driver appeal stakes by the steering .
12	They receive a child who has been badly let down in the past , who has to learn , painfully , how to care and trust again .
13	She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’
14	Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation .
15	Its devotees felt badly let down by an earlier boom set off by ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ , a 1980 film starring John Travolta .
16	Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first .
17	Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’
18	" Just nip down to the dining room and put the tiniest whisky , only up to here , " she held three of Nicandra 's fingers against the glass , rolling empty on the eiderdown " very nice , too .
19	Labour , he said , would fight for more cash to run social services , not just lie down like the Tories and accept what they were given .
20	So just jot down at the side of the page the other eleven names in the room okay everybody 's Tony , Mike , Jeff , Sarah , Bob , Rob , Gordon , John , Tom , Joanne , Mike Dave .
21	‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’
22	‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’
23	We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’
24	I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays
25	And you can think of that pretty easily if you look at your table erm just write down with the charges on the the ions what H two S O four looks like .
26	‘ She just fall down in the road screaming .
27	You just snuggle down in the feathers and hang on . ’
28	Plenty of small ones just float down through the atmosphere like dust — which , at a tenth of a millimetre across , is pretty much what they are .
29	If you ever break down on a country road at 2 a.m. , you will truly understand the meaning of the word ‘ alone ’ .
30	The loss of the aerodynamic download normally provided by the horizontal tail surfaces in cruising flight caused the aircraft to pitch rapidly nose down with no possibility of recovery from the ensuing dive .