Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 2 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 3 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 4 | We all know the prehistoric method of treating the dead , which obtains even to-day in the less enlightened parts of the country — the body hurriedly placed in the coffin , the packing with sawdust , and the necessarily precipitate screwing down of the lid . |
| 5 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 6 | They 're very wide ranging , and if er , Chair , if members would , would just like to look down at the list of er , options , without going through er , each one individually , but they do range from er , work with er former cottage hospitals , er , front room day care , the further development of home care cooperatives , work er , for people who er , have spinal injuries , who have intake , and er , an interpreter service for , for people who have a hearing loss , and particularly er , helping er , the Shropshire Disability Consortium to set up an interpreting service in the county . |
| 7 | As we saw in section 2.5 , the sectoral spatial division of labour was already beginning to break down in the UK during the post-war years when Fordism is supposed to have been at its height . |
| 8 | Even at this depth the sunlight had finally started to filter down through the mist . |
| 9 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 10 | Brutality , as Hill describes and felt it , was a bitter part of his prison life ; you just learnt to get down on the floor as fast as you could and cover up as best you could . |
| 11 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 12 | She had learnt that wickedness exists , even where there is beauty , and now she could hardly bear to look down into the Vale . |
| 13 | Gazing idly over the rolling green lawns , she watched the red glow of the sun , slowly beginning to sink down over the horizon . |
| 14 | The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach . |
| 15 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 16 | But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration . |
| 17 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 18 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 19 | For his own part , the prince would cheerfully have bedded down in the cramped military quarters he normally used on his periodical visits , but he was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests , and the greater space and grace of the abbot 's apartments made approach to his own person easier , and brought more petitioners in search of his favour , which at once satisfied his thirsty sense of duty , and wore him out into childish sleepiness by nightfall . |
| 20 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers . |
| 21 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers |
| 22 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |
| 23 | The arms are then allowed to drop down to the sides of the body , suddenly , as though they had become as heavy as lead . |
| 24 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 25 | in Islamic art ) cut his staff , then elected to shut down until the January reopening , at which time the museum will proceed with reduced exhibition , education , and provincial outreach programs . |
| 26 | In fact , a shower of dust , cobwebs , bat droppings and laths had indeed begun to splatter down upon the musicians and their small audience . |
| 27 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 28 | Their television colleagues were more patrician , only occasionally deigning to nod down at the page and scribble the time of an important section of Blanche 's statement . |
| 29 | They would be perhaps regarded as thick as two short planks , er they would not be happy , they would be struggling to do work that was not honestly within their capacities , that being the case , they would almost certainly have to go down from the University . |
| 30 | The rain certainly did come down during the night , it was so loud on the window the noise made it difficult to sleep . |