Example sentences of "down a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a dreadful finality about cutting down a tree . |
| 2 | When much of Britain and Europe was covered with forest , tree worship was prevalent and it was customary to go in spring or early summer into the woods , cut down a tree and bring it , together with the blessings bestowed by the tree spirit , into the village where it was re-erected . |
| 3 | Killing an animal harms it , of course ; so does cutting down a tree . |
| 4 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 5 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 6 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 7 | It is the same as swinging an axe to chop down a tree . |
| 8 | The backswing can be compared to chopping down a tree with and axe ; power and speed come from the distance the axe is swung back . |
| 9 | There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands . |
| 10 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 11 | Talbot , accompanied by Denholm , climbed down a rope ladder to greet the owner . |
| 12 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
| 13 | It was now evening and a light wind was blowing , so I lowered the sails before climbing down a rope and into the sea . |
| 14 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 15 | Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today , and ask where the people 's ancestors came from . |
| 16 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 17 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |
| 18 | Cowell and Crothers ( 1970 ) and Crothers ( 1971 ) accepted the basic observation- namely that dog-whelks cease growth at maturity and ( usually ) lay down a row of " teeth " . |
| 19 | He found all second winter whelks to cease feeding on the Yorkshire coast and lay down a row of " teeth " within their shell . |
| 20 | Except in thin-shelled populations , adults usually lay down a row of teeth along the lip of the aperture . |
| 21 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 22 | A45 to date format 2 the entry for @NOW appears as a meaningful date ( in my example 09-Sep ) and if I now move down a row and type @NOW again it will instantly be displayed as the current date . |
| 23 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 24 | My washing has to be hung out horizontally rather than vertically because given the chance he can bring down a row of wet towels in six seconds flat . |
| 25 | He led her down a row , then came to a halt . |
| 26 | Never one to turn down a freebie , Dave swigged the wine in five gulps … holding his left hand behind him , fingers crossed . |
| 27 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 28 | However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes . |
| 29 | Drilling down to where rocks are at high temperatures , excavating a large cavity , then pumping down a fluid which could be vaporised and used to generate electricity , could give geothermal energy a wide application but involves the development of new technology . |
| 30 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |