Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 2 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
| 3 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 4 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 5 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 6 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 7 | The crowd generously greeted David Baird 's consolation try , which came when they were already 70 points down . |
| 8 | This unexpected bit of colour materialising just before they were due to fall down , came as a bonus . |
| 9 | Mavis and Walter , pretending ‘ their horse 's welfare meant more to them than eating ’ , set off up the train to eat in the racegoers ' dining car , and so did Angelica , ‘ too upset to sit down ’ . |
| 10 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 11 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 12 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 13 | It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure . |
| 14 | In effect , the principle is the same as that laid down in G. v. G. ( Minors : Custody Appeal ) [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 647 . |
| 15 | Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative . |
| 16 | That goes down . |
| 17 | But I mean , we have got nine beat officers for the whole of the Harlow Town area and just th , this area this is the start of what we call our beat eight this is the boundary along Southern Way , and that goes down as far are familiar with the area of Staple Tye most of you ? |
| 18 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 19 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 20 | Any worries of that to come down |
| 21 | All around the house was a wide open piece of land ; and around that was a fence , two metres high , with no doors or openings , and too strong to pull down easily . |
| 22 | and that drops down . |
| 23 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 24 | For small molecules it is often possible to write down descriptions of various vibrations until the total of 3N — 6 is reached , decide the symmetry selection rules for each in turn , and so decide how many modes should appear in the IR and Raman spectra . |
| 25 | It had been a simple matter after that to slip down to Mike Quinn , who was an acknowledged authority on all aspects of the disease by virtue of his ownership of one book , and borrow his Encyclopaedia of Human Ailments . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's why you 're quite right to come down here to start your travels . |
| 28 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 29 | Another goes down . |
| 30 | My target was 13 , so we are now 2 points down . |