Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 2 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 3 | It is when these fail that sex , drugs or alcohol are invoked to more effectively push down the pain . |
| 4 | The Profitboss rarely turns down an invitation to speak at a conference , seizing the opportunity to present his company in the best light , to fine-tune his own professional skills . |
| 5 | There is also evidence that TV , as a technology which works by electronic scanning , effectively shuts down the functioning of those parts of the brain that reason and think actively and logically — the skills that have been associated with the left hemisphere of the brain . |
| 6 | Stones and earth ( weathered rocks ) slowly slip down the slopes , by soil creep , into the channels . |
| 7 | If the risk-free hedge is seen to produce a greater return than the risk-free rate then arbitrage will take place as investors offer to write more calls and so bring down the price of the option . |
| 8 | You should remember that a fridge does n't kill bacteria , only slows down the rate at which they multiply . |
| 9 | Apply cuticle remover all round the nail and gently push down the cuticles with a rubber-tipped hoof stick , a cotton bud , or cotton wool wrapped round an orange stick . |
| 10 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 11 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 12 | In one of the many meetings on Nov. 8-9 , Rajiv Gandhi , leader of Congress ( I ) ( which with 193 of the 525 Lok Sabha seats had led the opposition to Singh 's government and had constituted the largest single party block ) , apparently turned down an invitation from President Venkataraman to form a Congress ( I ) government . |
| 13 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 14 | We took a long walk down the Iron Pier . |
| 15 | They have little experience of the style of presentation in higher courts ‘ and it matters ’ and whilst a number of solicitors are extremely good others ‘ let themselves down in court ’ and in doing so let down the solicitors ' branch of the profession as a whole . |
| 16 | TO find a special game in the Mega Drive version of Klax , merely hold down the Left and Up diagonal plus A , B , C and Start simultaneously at the title screen . |
| 17 | However the emergence of anti-heroes like Billy Bunter , the demotion of romance to children 's literature , are obvious consequences of the Western world 's fifteen-hundred-year long climb down the ladder of literary modes . |
| 18 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 19 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | According to the Boston Herald , he is like ‘ a long drive down a desert highway : a smooth , fast trip through rugged territory , temperatures that range from bone-chilling cool to blistering heat , a landscape that is monumental , bleak and beautiful ’ . |
| 22 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 23 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 24 | Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment . |
| 25 | Suddenly Tring found themselves in front , with City committed to attack , Tring suddenly broke down the right and Danny Glass saw his strike-on goal pushed away by Taylor , but only into the path of Danny Rook following up , who put home after sixty five minutes . |
| 26 | When this happens , some people respond by pouring paraffin over that fire , turning it into a blazing inferno ( i.e. panicking , hyperventilating , catastrophizing , avoiding , etc. ) , while others sensibly dampen down the blaze with a wet blanket ( i.e. relaxing , thinking positively , goal planning , problem solving , and self assertion ) . |
| 27 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 28 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 29 | But the suspect must have noticed him , because he suddenly waved down a passing taxi and drove off . |
| 30 | It was easy enough to climb down the covers on to the floor . |