Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 4 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 5 | All of this comes down to one simple phrase : working more efficiently so we can do more and do it better . |
| 6 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 9 | Tessa first of all sat down on the edge of the bed , with her knees together , her feet crossed and slightly to one side , her back straight , and her cup and saucer at chest height , as she had learnt in Social Situation Training . |
| 10 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 11 | V7799 , was one of five shot down by 7/JG26 . |
| 12 | It was their tree ; although distant from Nana 's house , it was one of several passed down as part of the family 's inheritance . |
| 13 | Three out of four break down before completing 1500 hours . |
| 14 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 15 | The sleeping bag liner and bivvy bag also have their own small stuff sacks with each packing down to roughly the size of a bag of sugar . |
| 16 | Cholesterol gall bladder stones may be initiated by precipitation of calcium salts to form a nidus , with subsequent laying down of cholesterol from its supersaturated state on this nidus . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The platform party mingled with the other guests before all sat down to an excellent table buffet luncheon . |
| 19 | In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ . |
| 20 | The cherry and whites were just two points short of victory at Leicester last saturday … they fought back from ten points down with 13 men … |
| 21 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 22 | ‘ Red Ellen ’ had long been in the public eye — notably as the figure at the head of the Jarrow March in 1936 bearing down upon London to protest against the enormity of unemployment . |
| 23 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Proceedings had been due to resume on Monday next week , but the commission was on standby to travel down over the weekend if necessary if there was an improvement in his client 's health . |
| 26 | 200 yds later take clear path on left leading down through forest to bridge crossed near the start of the walk . |
| 27 | In November the Smolensk guberniia executive committee is being rebuked in turn by no less a person than V. Molotov , Secretary of the Central Committee in Moscow , for allowing subordinates to impose taxes beyond those laid down in the All-Union list . |
| 28 | L 24 , p. 1 ) were adopted , all the member states applied to registration similar nationality requirements to those laid down in the Act of 1988 . |
| 29 | Infants developing competence in their first language , experience it as a working high-speed whole , yet acquire native speaker competence without any formal instruction , apparently without effort , without any conscious formulation of rules , and without any splitting down into manageable ‘ areas ’ ( although the features of adult speech to children may provide some help ) . |
| 30 | They went higher , up the steep winding road , snow banked high on either side of them and no traffic at all coming down from the pass . |