Example sentences of "down a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 2 | Fortunately , he wrote , while every person , more or less , in the Western world , has access to pen and paper and can write down a word or two , few will turn as naturally to painting or music to soothe their troubled breasts . |
| 3 | ENVIRONMENTAL health officers ( EHOs ) in Gwent have shut down a ‘ backstreet kitchen ’ operating from a terraced house after a salmonella outbreak . |
| 4 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 5 | It might calm you down a bit . ’ |
| 6 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , when things had calmed down a bit , Kathleen made a quiet suggestion . |
| 8 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 9 | Where it occurs much lower down a recovery is unlikely , and the accident should be put down either to the failure to maintain a safe airspeed at low altitudes , or to bad planning leading to a situation from which a crash is almost unavoidable . |
| 10 | Now all Madame Butterfly had to do was climb down a piece of wood twice her height and fly free . |
| 11 | In a spasm of irritation he pulled a cloak over his nightshirt , took down a pistol from the wall , and went downstairs into the chilly , stone-smelling darkness of the ground floor , looking for servants . |
| 12 | Today it was closed but the delightfully cold ice-cream from the small shop at the entrance went down a treat . |
| 13 | A growing menace in Verdon is the determination of many climbers to lower down a pitch and then be top-roped up it . |
| 14 | Many of us know the difficulties of having a dog and holding down a job . |
| 15 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 16 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 18 | Is there nothing that the average man wandering down a country lane can do about the effects of autumn ? |
| 19 | As Mr Cheney and General Yazov walked down a Pentagon corridor , Mr Cheney stopped General Yazov to point out a display honouring Dwight Eisenhower , who commanded Allied forces in Europe during the Second World War . |
| 20 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 21 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 22 | PANAMA CITY — Troops loyal to the Panamanian military leader , General Manuel Noriega , put down a coup attempt by junior officers in the capital yesterday after a day of heavy fighting , a spokesman for the Panama Defence Forces said . |
| 23 | Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative . |
| 24 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 25 | ( First Edition ) WARRINGTON have turned down a transfer request from Neil Harmon , their 21-year-old prop forward . |
| 26 | There can be few other places in the world where you can wash down a chopped herring sandwich with a glass of hot Vimto . |
| 27 | PANAMA 'S military government yesterday stepped up its verbal assault against enemies at home and abroad after putting down a coup led by some of the country 's most senior officers . |
| 28 | It would tie down a lot of troops and would also give Phnom Penh the opportunity to raise international alarm at the spectre of the return of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 29 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 30 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |