Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 2 | In both Britain and France , aspirations were greatly watered down by events . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Georgie Fame , Billy Fury and Pet Clarke all dusted down from retirement and brought back to our screens ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By mid-March the operation was literally bogged down in mud and confusion , allowing the Republicans to mount a counter-offensive . |
| 7 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 8 | There I was congratulating myself on surviving the winter without so much as a sniffle , when I was suddenly struck down without warning . |
| 9 | They avoid making enemies , and so cut down on threats to themselves in the office jungle . |
| 10 | By mid-March , their uprising had been brutally put down by Saddam Hussein 's Republican Guard . |
| 11 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 12 | But the inherent danger in adopting the confrontational approach was illustrated in 1980 when an undercover SAS officer was brutally gunned down by IRA killers as he stormed a Belfast hide-out . |
| 13 | J.H. Tranter — failed to return , presumably shot down by return fire from the Junkers . |
| 14 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 15 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 16 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 17 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 19 | The crackle of the smooth white sheets , already turned down in readiness on the immaculate bed . |
| 20 | He made his debut a week or two after joining us and soon settled down at left-half , making the berth his own , but he was not seen at his best until Palace manager Tom Bromilow signed Les Lievesley from Torquay . |
| 21 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 22 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
| 23 | On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons . |
| 24 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
| 25 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 26 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 27 | Hayling was a brilliant pupil at school and was soon marked down as Oxbridge material . |
| 28 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 29 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 30 | Also tonight , Celtic 's UEFA Cup opponents Sporting Lisbon have just touched down in Glasgow to begin preparations for their UEFA Cup tie at Parkhead . |