Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Do you want another lie down on the settee ? |
2 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
3 | Of all the Royal Family , it is the Queen Mother who has felt most let down by Fergie 's behaviour . |
4 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
5 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
6 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
7 | Quite how he would do that she was undecided when later she ran her bath prior to getting ready to go down to dinner . |
8 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
9 | Has she brought much stuff down with you ? |
10 | The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats . |
11 | A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player . |
12 | IN Tetris on the NES , if you keep select held down during play , you 'll knock up a high score of 10,000 points every time a block lands . |
13 | THE French Government looked ready to back down to angry farmers last night and torpedo a £200 billion boost to world trade . |
14 | Did that run down to the river ? |
15 | Put your arm up a little bit till I can get this pulled down over your feet . |
16 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
17 | It was little wonder that , during this time , Gergiev proved difficult to pin down for a promised meeting . |
18 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
19 | The Homeric heroes , the personalities of the early old Testament , individuals of the old empires of Babylon and Egypt have all come down to us as individuals driven by interior forces . |
20 | This new evidence for rapid sedimentation of diatom mats throughout large areas of the eastern equatorial Pacific suggests major draw down of carbon , silica and other nutrients . |