Example sentences of "down [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lord Beddington explained that five or six years ago the Australian banking organisation broke down altogether and nobody stepped in to save it . |
| 2 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 3 | Because the European Community have been heavily heavily subsidising its farmers right , they were having in order farmers were too successful , we 've had wine lakes , we had erm er butter mountains , we had to get rid of that , that was subsidised on the world market , as a result of that world market prices would come down right and that induced the agricultural government sorry the er American government to support its agriculture right and these chaps estimate that nearly half of the support given to the U S farmers merely offset their losses caused by essentially European Community and Japan subsidising their farmers . |
| 4 | you see we have to be a bit careful because what happens if we closed down right and transferred out to the field |
| 5 | The ten-year-old boy wrote the two separate amounts down slowly and carefully . |
| 6 | She heard the man in the mask sliding down slowly and knew she should try and make a run for it but her ankle was already swelling inside her Reebok . |
| 7 | She held him firmly , pumping his penis up and down slowly and rhythmically , twisting it slightly as she did so . |
| 8 | so I had to lie down properly and crawl over the top of it . |
| 9 | In spite of the fact that he had let her down badly and most devastating of all , even though he now had a new love — Beth still pined for him . |
| 10 | ‘ I was letting Woosie down badly and had no feeling at all , ’ said Mouland , who came into the tournament after finishing only 84th in this season 's European money list . |
| 11 | Surely we 've got time to sit down somewhere and have a coffee … ? ’ |
| 12 | oh alright , he 's put them down somewhere and he ca n't find them , and he thought perhaps you might of picked them up , cos you 're always picking things up you should n't are n't you ? |
| 13 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 14 | As the road twists uphill , following a ridge with the ground falling away to the right , panoramic views are revealed through clearings of the lake down below and the backdrop of the Oberland mountains behind . |
| 15 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 16 | By his time I was terrified and I do n't ever be so and our teacher took us down below and tried to play games my mind I distinctly howling my . |
| 17 | And then we were down below and er there was erm a table with some antique typewriters on it . |
| 18 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 19 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 20 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 21 | There was another great big box but instead of being up high it was down below and I could easily |
| 22 | One down below and one above huh |
| 23 | On completion of your round , slow down gently and then dismount . |
| 24 | The approach is easy , forward down gently and landing number one is acceptable . |
| 25 | The Doctor pushed her down gently and tried to make her comfortable . |
| 26 | Claudia put the phone down gently and decided against going back to bed . |
| 27 | One of the humans reached down gingerly and picked up the box , lifting it up in the air as though Masklin was something very rare and delicate . |
| 28 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 29 | that 's why she ca n't get the screw right down so and I doubt whether the woman in the shop will be able to do it , needs a bloke . |
| 30 | So they sat down together and opened them . |