Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 2 | Keeping the index record size down is helpful because if the inverted indexes are small they can be held in main storage , and so cut search times down to a minimum . |
| 3 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 4 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 5 | It was wonderful because so many people came down to Hackney which is not the easiest place to get to . |
| 6 | Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon . |
| 7 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 8 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 9 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 10 | Sticks against the dashboards , diving , brakes on , down , down , down … the more reckless pilots dived down through the barrage , but those with more vivid imaginations pulled out of their dives several hundred feet above the shellbursts . |
| 11 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 12 | Erm , we wo n't say too much about transcription systems at the moment , erm , just do , do it according to what you think are the most important bits to get down onto paper . |
| 13 | An example of this is the rather complicated procedure laid down in the JCT 1980 form for extensions of time . |
| 14 | In a dilapidated classroom of a Managua school in mid-1989 , an evening class of about forty students settled down to elementary Spanish . |
| 15 | Ideally use a floorboard saw , or alternatively a general purpose saw with fairly fine teeth to cut down between two boards . |
| 16 | I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle . |
| 17 | One particularly exposed ravine running down to the Meuse was nicknamed the ‘ Bowling Alley ’ by the Germans , and indeed the image was an apt one . |
| 18 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 19 | Such research is necessary for understanding the mental processes involved in object recognition ; how object recognition may develop ; and , how such recognition breaks down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 20 | By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once . |
| 21 | If this decision were to be upheld , the appellants stand to lose their liberty and , in my judgment , it would not be right that such a result should occur when the evidence is excluded only on the basis of the rather stricter rules laid down in Ladd v. Marshall . |
| 22 | A very steep paths leads down from the summit . |