Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 2 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 3 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 4 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 5 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 6 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 7 | Amid the growing City scandal , Ernest Saunders temporarily stepped down as Chairman and Chief Executive of Guinness and was subsequently dismissed . |
| 8 | A wall of water a thousand feet high smashed down on Nagarythe . |
| 9 | And , not quite sure how to take that , Ellie hastily looked down at the quilt the woman was folding . |
| 10 | TIM BUZAGLO , the Woking hat-trick hero cruelly cut down by a Gazza-style knee injury , is back to boost their latest FA Cup odyssey at Kingfield tonight . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Tim Buzaglo , the Woking hat-trick hero cruelly cut down by a Gazza-style knee injury , is back to boost their latest FA Cup odyssey in tonight 's second round replay against Brighton tonight . |
| 12 | In what must be the most liberal judgement ever handed down by a football authority , the FA disciplinary committee decided it was unintentional . |
| 13 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 14 | Against that must be weighed the costs of absorbing new members into a Community already weighed down by the process of bargaining over policy among 12 member states . |
| 15 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 16 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 17 | They were easily built and repaired using tools and skills often passed down from father to son . |
| 18 | But the odds were weighted against reason , and other parts of the mind , like some Resistance movement long held down in an oppressed country , came out into the open . |
| 19 | There was nothing in his chinless face of the awesome wonder that Gabriel usually looked down on . |
| 20 | Hare , a one-time apprentice cricket professional with Notts , a 1985 Lion in New Zealand and Barbarian committee member , picks up the reins reluctantly laid down by Alan Davies after 14 ( unpaid ) years with the club . |
| 21 | Asik immediately reached down for the delicacy and carefully slipped it into his shorts . |
| 22 | Others stoutly denied this matriarchal ascendency , insisting that , following its promiscuous episode , early society soon settled down under a patriarchal régime in which the opposite sex knew its place and kept it . |
| 23 | The gauntlet thus thrown down against ideas and assumptions so widely current in the Christianity and theology of his own day was Kierkegaard 's great contribution . |
| 24 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
| 25 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 26 | With the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill still bogged down in its 13th day in committee , the back-bench loyalists vented their anger on the Tory rebels . |
| 27 | Writing a hundred years before Eusebius , he states that , after the deaths of Peter and Paul , in the course of the persecutions in Rome : ‘ Mark the disciple and interpreter of Peter also handed down to us in writing the things preached by Peter . ’ |
| 28 | Georgie Fame , Billy Fury and Pet Clarke all dusted down from retirement and brought back to our screens ? |
| 29 | Ministers have already decided that they will have to give cable operators a free choice on the technology they use , provided it meets the basic requirements already laid down by the DoI and endorsed last month by the Eden Committee . |
| 30 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |