Example sentences of "be [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 2 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 3 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 4 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 5 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 6 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 7 | Each canon has the following voice ( or ‘ consequent ’ ) only a quaver later and a semitone higher ( if one disregards the fact that the basses are transposed down an octave ) . |
| 8 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 9 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 10 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |
| 11 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
| 12 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 13 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 14 | Yeah I was I had a shower , well , perhaps the water 's been turned down a bit . |
| 15 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 16 | And I said , everybody can hear when they 're walking down the pavement ! |
| 17 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're turning down a sum like that ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said . |
| 20 | No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand |
| 21 | I was gritting my teeth , thinking , ‘ Thank god we 're going down the 18th . ’ |
| 22 | We 're going down the Swanee if we do n't . |
| 23 | We 're going down the north-west staircase and past the garderobe passage . ’ |
| 24 | And do n't forget we 're going down the fracture clinic Alison ! |
| 25 | You know I would n't cos you 're going down the shops . |
| 26 | So you 're going down the south coast , it 's lovely Guildford 's alright , where they , they 're fucking stuck up bitches ! |
| 27 | He ca n't if you put in , if he thinks everything 's rosy here , he ca n't help you , but in fact you 're going down the swanee , you 're only fooling yourselves . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're slowing down a bit now . |
| 29 | We 're slowing down the traffic ! ’ |
| 30 | You 'd better go now , we 're slowing down the traffic . ’ |