Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 8 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 9 | Another came down near the Leprosy Hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , and pieces of wreckage from these two aircraft are still currently on display in the Malta War Museum . |
| 10 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 11 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 12 | Do you want another lie down on the settee ? |
| 13 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 14 | This cuts down on the suspense and Ballantyne sees it as being comic . |
| 15 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 16 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 17 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 18 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 19 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 20 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 21 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 22 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 23 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 24 | but I think this , this comes down to the |
| 25 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
| 26 | that passes down to the south west sir , yes . |
| 27 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |
| 28 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 29 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
| 30 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |