• Armstrong and Aldrin had to jump nearly a metre down from the bottom rung of the ladder to the Moon's surface.
• The objects from these sites were originally buried two to three feet down at the bottom of graves.
• We were kitted out with helmets and miners' torch and taken 40 metres down to the pit bottom in a cage.

Synonyms

• One gentleman has not been down at all to meet his friends.
• Frank the Manc used to pop down from his attic flat with a bottle of whiskey and a plate full of samosas.
• I got up, washed and headed down to the dining hall passing the site of last nights incident.

• She was heading down from the north and I was on a slightly earlier flight from London.
• He converted hundreds as he made his way down into the South Leinster border area.
• A few days ago I ran across an old friend who is now living down here with the new wife and child.

• The police have also been down and we have discussed the night in detail.
• He said he would meet us down at the club later that night, but he never appeared.
• I never knew them well, only meeting them on rare occasions down at the seafront.

• My friends are down from Cambridge and I don't want you to antagonize them.
• To work on the Times had been a vague ambition of mine ever since my Aunt Nell, with whom I used to stay while down from Cambridge early in the war, used me as a messenger to take up to London on Sunday night the letters with which she regularly bombarded her friends and relations in high places, one of whom happened then to be the editor of the Times.

• After the gig I just drank it down, poured myself into a taxi and headed home to bed.
• They will take a glass of treated water from the outflow pipe and drink it down.
• I am keeping my food down and this has led to my weight remaining constant, although by no means ideal.

• Her jet black hair was slicked down onto her neck and her eyes were sprinkled with tears.
• They wrestled it into the back of the car… we had to put the back seats down flat to fit it in.
• The back seats fold down but not completely flat and they leave behind a big ridge.

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

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

• Such subsidies can often lead to over production, which in turn forces prices down.
• My latest statement shows that it is now worth less than I have paid in so far, because the unit price has gone down.
• Ms Foley said it was now clear that public and media pressure had paid off in keeping the prices down.

• It would cut the size of your pages down by a fair bit, and be a bit easier to write.
• As always, the interview's been heavily compressed to keep the file size down.
• Dissolve the sugar in a little water over a high heat and boil the resulting syrup down to the softball stage.

• I would dearly love to know where it is and have it passed over to me so that I can pass it down to my family.
• He also wants them returned so he can keep them in the family and pass them down to his son.
• Amanda says that she has passed the recycling bug down to her daughter.

• At the moment we just don't look like losing, even if we go a goal down in games.
• She retrieves the break only to go match point down in the tiebreaker when she makes a complete hash of a simple volley.
• They attacked from the start, but went a goal down after a defensive lapse.

• Nine down and six to go, Carlow and Naas are on track for All Ireland League promotion.
• I think my body knows it's the halfway point of the week, with four shows down and four to go.
• There is one down and two to go for Inveraray after their intermediate championship victory at Oban yesterday.

• People lock systems down prior to test and as soon as test is complete the systems are opened up again.
• Alas it's not sufficiently clever to hide it again when that app is closed down.
• Banks seeking to have phishing websites located in China taken down face a language barrier.

• The protesters marched through the capital waving party flags and shouting slogans such as, ‘Down with absolute monarchy’.
• It wasn't until her brother went to Europe on summer holiday and saw a U2 concert in Berlin in which everyone was shouting ‘Down with apartheid’ and ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ that it struck home.
• A group of four men and women burst into a bank with a chorus of ‘Down with Capitalism!’

• If you did not put your name down for one, but would like one, please contact any of the members of the committee.
• You see, the officer who stopped me in the City marked me down on his report sheet as Asian.
• Sergeant Major marks me down as being present and tells us to fall out to the softball field.

• He has never forgotten the time he boated down the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
• It has stunning views down the River Necker and was on the doorstep of easily accessible attractions.
• It was in that guise that he was captured in 1943, floating down the Mekong River in a bamboo raft.

• The Woods live half-way down the street, the big yellow house on the left-hand side.
• He lives just down the road and well and truly charms Carlos by describing him as super handsome.
• We who live lower down the road can use the 846 but this only runs every half-hour and is often full.

Synonyms

• If I've been down the pub I can come home and stink of fags, which is horrible.
• What would happen if a newspaper invited readers to an editorial conference down the pub?
• Well, your phone will be with you tomorrow, and then you can pop off down the pub and show it off, can't you!

• The down train that forms the 9.30 was 9 minutes late.
• Currently 13 trains a day stop at Pewsey compared with three up trains going to Paddington and three down trains when Mr Nicholls first joined the NDRPA.
• All down trains of the Central and Western Railway leaving Mumbai today will be running on schedule.

• 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.

• There's a lot of people out there who are calling themselves rappers but they're not really down.
• The main character of this painfully hilarious racial satire stretches to prove he's really a down white boy.

• Home with two mighty shots, Murray downed a nine-foot putt to be all square.
• Randhawa…downed his putt from 10 feet short of the green.
• He hit a glorious drive and second to nine feet, then downed the putt for a 67.

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