Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 2 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 3 | Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac . |
| 4 | Homoeopathy can be very satisfying if you do not get worried or weighed down by the ‘ burden ’ of finding a remedy . |
| 5 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 6 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 7 | You can control the amount of ‘ sink ’ by either pulling up , as I am doing here , or pushing down on the boom . |
| 8 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
| 9 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 10 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 11 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 12 | No decisions have yet been taken on which newspapers will be sold or closed down in the UK . |
| 13 | Are you prepared to give up smoking for instance , or to cut down on the amount of caffeine , alcohol , sugar and junk-food you may consume ? |
| 14 | Alternatively nip down to the beach , or stroll down to the centre of Puerto del Carmen where the nightlife buzzes , and the cafés and bars stay open until the small hours before returning to your very own home from home apartment , complete with facilities , terrace and garden . |
| 15 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 16 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 17 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 18 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 19 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 20 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 21 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 22 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 23 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 24 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 25 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 26 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 27 | ‘ Come and sit down in the bar , ’ says Mrs Bixman . |
| 28 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 29 | A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise . |
| 30 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |