Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 2 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 3 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 4 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |
| 6 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 7 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 8 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 9 | Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump . |
| 10 | Losing excess weight entails cutting down on the things you enjoy . |
| 11 | So the mermaids spun the wheel until there was a great funnel-hole in the sea , and the fisherman 's boat went riding down to the sea-king 's palace . |
| 12 | Above the knee , Santa shed 1¼ inches , and those flabby thighs had toned down by an inch . |
| 13 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 14 | David sat looking down at the empty wine glass that he was turning round and round between his hands . |
| 15 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
| 16 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 17 | Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath . |
| 18 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
| 19 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 20 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 21 | The Fishguard-based crabber Inspire went down in a calm sea when a huge wave swamped it . |
| 22 | My feet went numb down on the mud . |
| 23 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 24 | From the dry-out farm , Tunney had moved down to the border , mooched around in cantinas for a while , then left the country two steps ahead of the sheriff of some Rio Grande jerkwater . |
| 25 | 52 and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 ) , the law had settled down in the form which I have indicated . |
| 26 | Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph . |
| 27 | Now what was required then was that although the job was in a rush , the management had to telephone down to the Admiralty in Bath to get the appropriate sanction you know , to , to accept the cylinder with the er bigger gauge bore . |
| 28 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 29 | But Manchester seems very distant as the sun continues to burn down on the Pacific coast . |
| 30 | But Manchester seems very distant as the sun continues to burn down on the Pacific coast . |