Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 2 | I mean that there 's half of them go down the dock now , they do n't do anything . |
| 3 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |
| 4 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 5 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 6 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 7 | To my surprise , by dint of my putting down the front seat , it fitted inside the car , so the public was spared the probably unusual sight of a coffin on a roof-rack . |
| 8 | Among the immigrant Irish , ‘ wakes ’ were exploited as a means of bringing in contributions , some of which vanished down the throats of relatives and friends in need of consolation . |
| 9 | ‘ Pool could n't make a copy of itself to send down the cable : it did n't have anything like enough data storage space . |
| 10 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 11 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 12 | Suddenly , the grass around the den began to rustle and clumps of it fell down the bank . |
| 13 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 14 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Before getting on board some of us walked down the platform to take photographs of Evening Star running round its train . |
| 16 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 17 | They had brought sticks with them to cut down the plants . |
| 18 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 19 | The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society . |
| 20 | It is difficult for anyone to slow down the behaviour that they produce in milliseconds during a real meeting in order to reflect on it and change it . |
| 21 | There were stories about the echo on those records being created by someone standing down the end of the corridor and playing . |