Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 2 | Ferguson then said he would buy the title for the fans he had so badly let down . |
| 3 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 4 | All around them the other coolies stared in disbelief at the sight of their tormentor so astonishingly struck down before their eyes ; then the floodwaters of their hatred burst some invisible dam , and several men dashed forward screaming incoherently to slash at the kneeling man 's head and shoulders with their coupe-coupes . |
| 5 | There is , however , a worrying trend that is perhaps best put down to enthusiasm . |
| 6 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 7 | Ee ee he should n't be able to buy them cos he 's only just gone down ! |
| 8 | Gazing at him in astonishment , Fabia only just held down a gasp . |
| 9 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 10 | This can be so easily set down ; indeed , written at such a general level as they are here , these statements become almost obvious . |
| 11 | Did you truly believe , it seemed to say , that I was to be so easily pinned down ? |
| 12 | These days , as John has said , it 's much more broken down than that . |
| 13 | They were all later closed down . |
| 14 | A dominant tradition of thought within the Labour Party " sees " the British constitution in terms rather different from those which we have so far set down . |
| 15 | The new credit line brings the company 's total unsecured facilities to $100m , of which it has so far drawn down $20m . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been scribbling since infancy , though I 've only now buckled down to it . |
| 17 | Well I just wonder you , there has got to be some kind of relationship between the fact that most people who take drugs live in really run down deprived areas . |
| 18 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 19 | These had perhaps once been outhouses which had long ago fallen down . |
| 20 | But the realities of decision making , as I have tried to show earlier in this chapter , are not so readily pinned down . |
| 21 | One of these is that stocks have been only modestly run down compared with previous recessions ; another is the boost to government spending from the Gulf war . |
| 22 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 23 | Most days I saw damage , people with huge problems , emotional , social , financial — sometimes self-inflicted , mostly just handed down to them . |
| 24 | Job control can be ineffective if the command structure is not properly laid down . |
| 25 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 26 | Skill is demonstrated by persistent and efficient pursuit of an objective and the skill can usually be understood although not necessarily written down with any great precision in terms of a goal and the path towards that goal . |
| 27 | These pronouncements were not necessarily written down and so they might be carried off into oblivion by the winds of time . |
| 28 | This incident was an isolated one , but it served to highlight the overlap between the possible measures of performance that had been considered ; an undetected error not only slowed down the payment of the expenses , but could also have bought into question the honesty of the individual and thus affected the status of the section head . |
| 29 | He was pleased at the news , though it must be reported not exactly knocked down with a feather . |
| 30 | The merlin population has yet to recover , because they are still affected by levels of PCBs , which are not easily broken down by the environment and are still leaking from industrial sites . |