‘sorry, but the computer’s down’

‘Our photographer was given an identical bulb for free by a garage because the computer was down.’

‘a seriously down, hip-hop homie’

‘There’s a lot of people out there who are calling themselves rappers but they’re not really down.’

‘A neutral pion consists of a down quark and a down antiquark.’

‘The new results promise to yield important information about the up and down quarks that comprise protons and neutrons.’

‘the down escalator’

‘click on the down arrow’

‘we travelled on the first down train’

‘All down trains of the Central and Western Railway leaving Mumbai today will be running on schedule.’

‘you got to be down with me’

‘she was totally down for a selfie’

‘he’s been so down lately’

‘If I had been playing badly, I would have been a bit down, but I wasn’t playing badly.’

‘the system went down yesterday’

‘Canadian Tire didn’t like it and threatened to sue him, so he took it down but still owns the URL.’

‘The team likes his control and the way he is able to keep the ball down in the strike zone.’

‘she couldn’t keep anything down’

‘After the gig I just drank it down, poured myself into a taxi and headed home to bed.’

‘pay £5 down and the rest at the end of the month’

‘She purchased the house for $89,000, paying 5 % down.’

‘you can plainly see the bottom 35 feet down’

‘He said they set to work digging several feet down in search of the remains.’

‘he was down from Oxford’

‘My friends are down from Cambridge and I don’t want you to antagonize them.’

‘there are eight trains a day, four up and four down’

‘I went down to put the kettle on’

‘Are you coming down for breakfast? It’s half past eleven.’

‘they’re living down south’

‘They have a big industry down there, and a lot of Irish businesses go there to film.’

‘buildings in England down to 1540’

‘everyone, from the President down to the bloke selling hot dogs, wants her dead’

‘the scandal brought down the government’

‘he was down with the flu’

‘Graham noted the numbers down carefully’

‘taking down notes’

‘United were 3–0 down’

‘She retrieves the break only to go match point down in the tiebreaker when she makes a complete hash of a simple volley.’

‘I’ll put you down for the evening shift’

‘At one point one of them asked me why I didn’t have my supervisor down as a referee.’

‘how many letters in fifteen down?’

‘People would be telling her to stop screaming as they were trying to solve 12 down on their crossword.’

‘crowds chanted ‘Down with America!’’

‘One truck had the slogan, ‘Down with High Fuel Prices,’ spray-painted on a banner draped on the back of his cab.’

‘she stuck down a Christmas label’

‘First the gel to slick it all down, then the spray to mold and hold where you want it.’

‘I must slim down a bit’

‘a formal statement that can’t be edited down’

‘keep the noise down’

‘the panic was dying down’

‘output was down by 20 per cent’

‘soup is down from 59p to 49p’

‘I’d rather be down at the villa’

‘I’m going down to the pub’

‘she looked down’

‘the sun started to go down’

‘down, boy!’

‘‘Down, boy,’ said Carl, and Moose obeyed without hesitation.’

‘one down and only six more to go’

‘I think my body knows it’s the halfway point of the week, with four shows down and four to go.’

‘That weakness should not be too great of a negative since the Texans typically do not use a nose tackle on passing downs anyway.’

‘But the Giants held the Redskins to two first downs on seven first-half drives.’

‘everyone gets their downs, their depressive periods’

‘I was into the… I have a right to do what I want, when I want… phase and so, I had a fair bit of downs too.’

‘the gentle green contours of the downs’

‘The sky is broodingly grey over the humid downs of the Barkly Tableland as a mob of well-fed white Brahman cows and calves quietly shift across the green expanse.’

‘a down-filled sleeping bag’

‘I bought a down comforter to put inside the duvet.’

‘the baby’s head was covered in down’

‘Every single women on the planet has ’down’ on her face- in fact, it’s what gives some women that ’perfect complexion’ look.’

‘Situated on a spur on the western edge of the Wessex downs, Eggardon overlooks undulating valley land.’

‘But the mainstay of the county was the sheep on the chalk downs around Dorchester and the cattle in the vale of Blackmoor to the north.’

‘the bright green leaves are covered with a soft white down’

‘Its leaves, which turn a deep crimson in autumn, are rounded and covered with down.’

‘the baby penguins’ woolly down is essential in the Antarctic winter’

‘This soft down is not a real feather, but works as a temporary covering.’

‘there had been more downs than ups during his years at Ferrari’

‘By her account, success is made of weeks, months, years of few ups and loads of downs - a whole lifetime of preparation.’

‘she was tired of going down the pub every night’

‘What would happen if a newspaper invited readers to an editorial conference down the pub?’

‘a dozen miles or so down the Thames’

‘He has never forgotten the time he boated down the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.’

‘up and down the stairs’

‘tears streaming down her face’

‘he lived down the street’

‘I wandered down the road’

‘astrologers down the ages’

‘That holds true down the ages whether the heroine is Elizabeth Bennet or Bridget Jones.’

‘he downed five pints of cider’

‘After downing the shot she had three more and then half a bottle of champagne.’

‘175 enemy aircraft had been downed’

‘he struck Slater on the face, downing him’

‘Jones downed the ball in the end zone’

‘he downed a 20-foot putt for victory’

‘He hit a glorious drive and second to nine feet, then downed the putt for a 67.’