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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 13 | After seven hours of rock hopping and scree climbing we were glad to slide down to the mist-covered mountain lake to pitch our tent . |
| 14 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 15 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 16 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 17 | From his discovery things had followed an inexorable path , like the water 's tight spiral down into the whirlpool 's mouth . |
| 18 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 19 | However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue . |
| 20 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 21 | Like a flan with potatoes and cheese in , mind you you 're supposed to cut down on the cheese |
| 22 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 23 | Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the early Dalek episodes had a Thal going down to the shore of a lake at night to collect some water . |
| 25 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 26 | it is also helpful to note down on the card idiomatic phrases using the lexical item in question , or illustrative sentences to show its range of meaning . |
| 27 | I stop too ; climb the natural embankment and look over the homeward stretch down to the pueblo . |
| 28 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 29 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 30 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |