Sentence examples for docking down from inspiring English sources

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Under cover of darkness Intrepid also made night trips to ferry men and materiel to creeks and inlets, and sent in a landing craft to act as a minesweeper, clearing channels using a piece of magnetised equipment so heavy that Intrepid's procedure of "docking down" in order to use it was fraught with danger.

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A final Conservative worry was that the process of "docking" Downing Street's operation with Stronger In would require sharing confidential Tory campaign methods with rival parties.

In "Blood Work," Mr. Daniels plays Buddy, a boat bum with a trust fund who lives a few docks down from Mr. Eastwood's character, a retired F.B.I. agent with a heart transplant searching for the serial killer who murdered his donor.

To wit: A few docks down from where Orion is building a pair of piers in Norfolk, Va., an orange Staten Island ferry is getting a tune-up.

On opening night, he described getting out of bed late at night, heading to the docks, lying down on a pier and trailing his hand in the water.

Pistorius, sitting in the dock, looked down at his notes and appeared emotional as the expert witness continued.

As Manchester began its painful transformation from industrial powerhouse to a service-driven regional center, the Salford Docks closed down in the late 1980's.

By the early 1970's, most of the factories had closed, and in 1982 South Amboy lost more jobs when the coal docks shut down.

He quit school in the ninth grade, took a job in a bookbindery in Hoboken, quit that and went to work on the docks, breaking down bulk cargo.

Soft-shell lobster was fetching about $2.30 a pound at the docks last week, down from $4.25 in August 2005; the hard-shell variety was going for about $4.50 a pound, down from $6.50.

As of 1930, Dockland offered employment to 100,000 people, but in 1981, in part because of the need for suitable anchorage for large container ships, the last of the majestic city docks closed down.

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