Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the really agricultural villages and parts of the kingdom , there is a shocking decay ; a great dilapidation and constant pulling down or falling down of houses . |
| 2 | He straightened suddenly and looked down at her coldly . |
| 3 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 4 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 5 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 6 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 7 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 9 | Only the plain-clothes thugs of the security police , who can easily be told by their well-fed oafishness , their training shoes and anoraks , go out of their way to move close in and stare down at anyone writing . |
| 10 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 11 | as if in a trance , Vincent got in and sat down beside him . |
| 12 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 13 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 14 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 15 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 16 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 17 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 18 | I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears . |
| 19 | By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders . |
| 20 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 21 | He had sighed , rubbed his hands together and sat down on a kitchen chair . |
| 22 | In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed . |
| 23 | Boxplots , showing median , interquartile range , and extreme values , are useful for quantitative outcome variables , especially when broken down by explanatory strata and displayed together . |
| 24 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 25 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 26 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 27 | But at least ten to fifteen bakers to my knowledge left rather than go down to what they called the Belsen camp . |
| 28 | It was natural that reformers should attack latifundia , where the under-utilization of the land and the pressure of population were obvious , rather than settle down to the complicated legal technicalities involved in the consolidation of vast numbers of dispersed strips . |
| 29 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 30 | The emphasis has switched to trying to reach the general public , rather than talk down to them . |