Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 2 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 3 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 4 | There were lots of them down at the railway . ’ |
| 5 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 6 | Tony surprises an oncoming motorist by assuming a position that leaves his legs on the gravel road but takes the rest of him down among the lake-side vegetation . |
| 7 | He also studied — between Helvoetfluys and the Brill — the production of madder , Rubia tinctorum , used in dyeing and ‘ took some minutes of it down upon the spot . ’ |
| 8 | I asked about you down at the corner , the shop there . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's the matter , no job for you down at the theatre then ? ’ |
| 10 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 11 | ( f ) Airspace and underground It is a fundamental proposition that in the absence of indications to the contrary a conveyance of land includes not only everything on the surface but everything beneath it down to the centre of the earth and the space directly above ( Grigsby v Melville [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 455 ) . |
| 12 | It 's like us down in the in England using the old county names some times . |
| 13 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 14 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 15 | I jumped up and ran with him down to the shore . |
| 16 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 17 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |