Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 2 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 3 | Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on . |
| 4 | The weaving yarn was caught down randomly across the row , but in a different way on adjacent rows , and in such a way that the design was largely floats ( swatch 3 , card 3 ) . |
| 5 | Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children . |
| 6 | Her picture and her silk quilt had been carried down below in the chaos of last night and she did not have the energy to seek them out . |
| 7 | They should be let down properly before the flight and not , as in the case of one of the mares , introduced to racing a week previously in a Windsor selling hurdle . |
| 8 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
| 9 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 10 | On the other hand , public relations is often looked down on by the media as messengers with stories that hold no interest and which will be presented in the wrong way at the wrong time and in the wrong situation . |
| 11 | Like you say , you might have moved down here before the — — |
| 12 | Slots were left in the floor slab for the steel frame to be bolted down directly into the foundation and then concreted round . |
| 13 | British Aerospace workers ' hopes of a revival were shot down yesterday with the news that 650 jobs are to be axed . |
| 14 | Check over all the things you have written down earlier in the preparation phase and make sure you have a full picture of yourself as regards health-related habits . |
| 15 | We read that the meaning of the embellishment on metalwork ‘ can not be recaptured from the archaeological material ’ and it can not be interpreted from the ‘ surviving literature , which was written down long after the inception of the style ’ ( Wilson 1976a , p. 3 ) . |
| 16 | You see it written down all over the place incorrectly . |
| 17 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 18 | Very few of the most senior people training establishments bedded down well within the operational theatre . |
| 19 | Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction . |
| 20 | Jasper had got down on to the floor and was grubbing about under the carpet . |
| 21 | The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written . |
| 22 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 23 | In an affected small bowel you will see the grey background with these tiny little curved rods present the whole area of the er , the villi is covered by the organisms which are er stuck down effectively by the processes which you ca , you ca n't really see them in the transmission micrograph , but they are attached to specific receptors on the surface of the entrocite membrane . |
| 24 | After he had gone , she chatted with several of the other guests , learned more local history from Margrida , got pinned down again by the Dalgety executive . |
| 25 | And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility . |
| 26 | The survey added greatly to our knowledge of the glacial deposits , which were laid down close to the southern limit of ice advance during the Anglian Stage . |
| 27 | The present social security system is laid down mainly in the Social Security Acts 1975 to 1990 . |
| 28 | By March things had settled down sufficiently for the DCAC to mount a mass demonstration which successfully traversed the original 5 October route — this time without diversions , but this was the last occasion on which the DCAC was able to organise a peaceful mass demonstration . |
| 29 | He had clumped down out of the stand and , against the flow of spectators , was making his way towards that hidden dell . |
| 30 | ‘ Something like 90,000 acres of trees per minute are being chopped down all over the world , ’ contributed Lydia off the top of her head . |