Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As a supposedly general-purpose chip , he said , the 80860 falls down on programmability , no thought seemingly having been given to the compiler and operating environment . |
| 4 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 5 | And finally , brethren , let us ask the Almighty to look down upon us and our endeavours with His special favour , beseeching Him that He may send a blessing upon our daily tasks , and that in His infinite wisdom He may smite our enemies , and destroy those who would destroy us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 8 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 9 | The inevitable slowing down in drilling which will stem from the withdrawal of the concession is bound to hit jobs at Scottish supply bases sooner rather than later . |
| 10 | The flight 's delayed but only slightly ; I change at Gatwick in breezy sunshine and the 146 touches down on Jersey in relatively balmy conditions . |
| 11 | I stop too ; climb the natural embankment and look over the homeward stretch down to the pueblo . |
| 12 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 13 | The latter flows down towards Standish itself , where it formerly provided the power for two corn mills in fairly close proximity to one another . |
| 14 | I see now the relentless laying down of guilt , and I feel a faint surprise that I must interpret it that way . |
| 15 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 16 | Forget the grinning drummer or the antics of the bass player ( the first to go down to stroppy retaliation ) , this band are a scorched earth antidote to faint hearts and floppy fringes . |
| 17 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 18 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 19 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 20 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 21 | The first helicopter left Safe Supporter shortly after 2pm with 19 people on board and the last touched down at Aberdeen airport just after 8.30pm . |
| 22 | He had barely a scratch upon him , he was hardly blown by comparison with these , and he stood off while they breathed , and at the last lighted down from his tired horse , to meet with the most valiant on equal terms . |
| 23 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 24 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 25 | Personally , I do n't like the exercise of feeling a definite pull down from the top of the backswing . |
| 26 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Erm if you have a look through them and then have a quick write down of what gifts you think the different ones that are mentioned in this are using . |
| 29 | In its present form the Banbury Lane represents a great narrowing down of what was originally not a single track but a more or less open corridor ( so that one can not be too precise about its prehistoric course ) , bounded on either side by dense forest , in places several miles wide . |
| 30 | ‘ One of the early Dalek episodes had a Thal going down to the shore of a lake at night to collect some water . |