Example sentences of "break down and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 2 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 3 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 4 | But there were some good memories , particularly of one Polish vessel after we had rescued their lifeboat , broken down and drifting in adverse weather in the outer reaches of the lock with the mate and several crewmen on board . |
| 5 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 6 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 7 | The autumn colours come when the green pigment chlorophyll is broken down and re-absorbed into the tree . |
| 8 | The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely . |
| 9 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 10 | Most procaryotes , using oxygen , depend on the simpler process of fermentation for their energy , where chemical food is broken down and burned inside the cell . |
| 11 | BIODEGRADABLE MATERIAL We can now make plastics which can break down and disappear into the soil . |
| 12 | They build up one structure which breaks down and flows into another . |
| 13 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 14 | In the middle of Reverend Barr 's address a woman Maggie did n't recognize completely broke down and had to be led away . |
| 15 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 16 | Once he broke down and cried on the radio . |
| 17 | We also know that ‘ the iron-willed Admiral ’ broke down and cried on hearing that Balboa 's ocean had at last been sighted . |
| 18 | I broke down and cried for fifteen minutes . |
| 19 | The next time out with me he broke down and cried for Constance . |
| 20 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 21 | That night to Michelle Phillips he broke down and cried like a baby . |
| 22 | Osborne broke down and confessed to the killing when a picture of the curtains in which Dean 's body was wrapped was flashed on TV . |
| 23 | What he needed was to break down and howl like a child , and it was the effort not to do so that was tearing at him . |
| 24 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |