Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 2 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I only write down the figures , really , but I do find it fascinating . ’ |
| 4 | Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ? |
| 5 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 6 | I always play down the beauty of a model . ’ |
| 7 | I also jot down the questions I did answer and ask myself if my answers were open or closed . |
| 8 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I even wrote down the name of a bar and a good clean hotel that he recommended . |
| 11 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 12 | I proudly took down the details in my pristine notebook and could n't wait to read the proof as soon as my painstaking , if short , report was set . |
| 13 | She read the star 's altitude off the sextant 's micrometer , and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her . |
| 14 | Then , after about three months , I had got it all out of my system I suppose , and I actually turned down an invitation to a party in favour of staying in and washing some clothes ! |
| 15 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 16 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 17 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 18 | The Doctor looked up and put on his spectacles which immediately slid down the perspiration on his nose . |
| 19 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |
| 20 | The OR Staff , as they are called , specify what is needed in two documents : the ‘ Staff Target ’ , which is couched in broad enough terms to allow several solutions ; and the ‘ Operational Requirement ’ , which subsequently narrows down the possibilities , and sets out more detailed specifications for the research and development phases of the project . |
| 21 | Those who blatantly slap down the enthusiasm and special achievement of young designers , painters , musicians , and other talented young people , often steal their ideas . |
| 22 | When she eventually tracked down the location , Miranda was speeding on a mix of excitement and anxiety . |
| 23 | Bet you fucking lay down the law alright . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's very difficult to do because if you are n't careful you just write down a series of platitudes , but I think that a statement of aims and beliefs is very necessary even if it does look platitudinous . ’ |
| 25 | She says to me I 've explained to her how to do it and she says yo I 'll give you a bit of paper you just write down the answers ! |
| 26 | Is that significantly different from zero right , well you just go down the right hand column in degrees of freedom until we reach thirty . |
| 27 | You just get out the path , you just get down the school path |
| 28 | And you just look down the route now and decide whether they 're achievable or realistic . |
| 29 | It was a release because she just went down every day . |
| 30 | Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him . |