Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 2 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 3 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 4 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 5 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 6 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 7 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 8 | In it he boasts of his gifts to charity , all written down in his little black book : |
| 9 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 10 | Skill is demonstrated by persistent and efficient pursuit of an objective and the skill can usually be understood although not necessarily written down with any great precision in terms of a goal and the path towards that goal . |
| 11 | In both Britain and France , aspirations were greatly watered down by events . |
| 12 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 13 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 14 | Georgie Fame , Billy Fury and Pet Clarke all dusted down from retirement and brought back to our screens ? |
| 15 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 16 | This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine . |
| 17 | Here the eye is naturally drawn down to the urn at the end of the vista . |
| 18 | The poll tax is quite rightly played down by the Tories , but what has this debacle cost the nation ? |
| 19 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 20 | By mid-March the operation was literally bogged down in mud and confusion , allowing the Republicans to mount a counter-offensive . |
| 21 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 22 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 23 | But the trouble is he 's gon na be so bogged down with his job problems |
| 24 | Do n't get so bogged down in the trivia of life you have n't the time or inclination to branch out and see what 's on offer . |
| 25 | She is so slowed down by the dope slamming fifty visions of hell at her a second that she finds it hard to fight , hard to believe in her own anger , hard to believe in what she 's doing . |
| 26 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 27 | In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values . |
| 28 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 29 | With the future of a new state lying uncharted before them , discussion of politics naturally reached down to basic principles , and there was considerable pressure to establish the new states and their federation as democracies , or as near that as was practically possible , democracy still at this time meaning direct popular participation in government . |
| 30 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |