Example sentences of "down on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was last night on the verge of coaxing Denmark back on to the path to European unity — but he will have to back down on the EC budget to close the deal . |
| 2 | I fell down on the hillside and lay there laughing . |
| 3 | The clatter was quite effective until one of the masters stamped down on the offenders . |
| 4 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 5 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 6 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
| 7 | But Manchester seems very distant as the sun continues to burn down on the Pacific coast . |
| 8 | But Manchester seems very distant as the sun continues to burn down on the Pacific coast . |
| 9 | Looking down on the clouds , Snowdonia |
| 10 | They looked out of the window and down on the merrymakers . |
| 11 | down on the axle . |
| 12 | Fell from a second-floor window smack down on the flagstones not a yard from where you 're standing . |
| 13 | Then in order to compare your expenditure against likely income , jot them down on the Budget Planner ( see pages 120–25 ) . |
| 14 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 15 | Er , if those that were earning over a certain amount , who certainly do n't need this child benefit to same the degree anyway , that 's those of at the lower end of the pay scale we could they could certainly save a lot of money , and they would n't have to do the squeeze down on the ones that would have the most . |
| 16 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |
| 17 | Aggie looked down on the child . |
| 18 | If he gave me a shagging I tried my best to get me heel of my boot down on the stair , something of that kind . |
| 19 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 20 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
| 21 | I wrote it down on the top of the table with my pencil . |
| 22 | He wandered towards the piano and very gently turned the picture of Captain Dawson face down on the top of the instrument . |
| 23 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 24 | This meant that the flutes were full width at the base of the sphere , but taper down on the top . |
| 25 | He slammed his hand down on the top of the dressing table , causing some of the bottles to topple over . |
| 26 | And the chain come down on the top of har shoulders , and her neck — you see , the owd sore part of her neck , that cut in there . |
| 27 | the man said , lifting the card machine from behind the counter and slamming it down on the top . |
| 28 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 29 | Does it feel like that down on the field , do you really start to feel frustrated ? |
| 30 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |