Example sentences of "[conj] down [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , the cause can be simple — piled-up earth in flowerbeds causing rising damp ; a faulty overflow or down pipe resulting in penetrating damp ; or inadequate ventilation leading to condensation or rot . |
| 2 | Dynamic Voice is neat because it simulates the classic ‘ V ’ of a graphic EQ and the V can be made deeper or more shallow by use of the preamp 's up or down keys . |
| 3 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |
| 4 | Turning , walking , lofting up or down tubes on her predetermined course , she tried to keep her mind on the job . |
| 5 | Modifying patches is as simple as pressing whichever up or down buttons you fancy , waiting until you find a sound you like and then saving it using the usual ‘ Enter ’ button . |
| 6 | A constant bane of the conference organiser is arriving at a venue to load and unload a dozen mini computers , audio-visual equipment , tape recorders , packets of paper and the like , six or eight times onto trolleys , carrying them up or down steps , grazing elbows squeezing into lifts or staggering miles under their weight — all before arriving at the place where they have to be set up . |
| 7 | And also why you 've got to talk to people , you know get your problems out in the open rather than let them build up and all of a sudden just say right , that 's it , out the gates , or down tools . |
| 8 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 9 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 10 | Battling up and down motorways in cars ! |
| 11 | Battered from side to side and up and down bits are torn from the main body and break away exposing parts from the reserve miscelles . |
| 12 | but she 'll have to walk from would n't she ? , right up Dean road and down Westow |
| 13 | As part of this cognitive revolution , psychoanalytic machines called ‘ psychoscopes ’ have been invented to generate ‘ biograms ’ , ‘ the extracted absolute of your unconscious patterns throughout your life … telescoped in time into one line that shows your harmonious rhythm , your up and down tendencies ’ ( 147/149 ) . |
| 14 | My brother-in-law said he read in the paper that erm over a year sort of the amount of oil tipped on our land and down drains which should n't be there is almost like equivalent to the disaster at Exxon Valdez . |
| 15 | The walk was a bit up hill and down dale and it rather tired me out . |
| 16 | For anyone on a long car journey , FM will never produce a solid clear path like the long-wave ( LW ) which carries Radio 4 the length and breadth of the land , up hill and down dale . |
| 17 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 18 | That meaning is in front of you — the Cross , like a magnet , dragging you up hill and down dale , a magnet that attracts not iron and steel , but suffering flesh and bone . |
| 19 | She was cursing poor old Reverend Marr up hill and down dale but I do n't reckon even grandma wanted him dead , ’ said the lad with relish . |
| 20 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 21 | The tunnel , a short one , was a single bore as the up and down lines were separated there . |
| 22 | The idea is that unadvertised , untimetabled trains cruise up and down lines where BR has experienced particular problems . |
| 23 | The idea is that unadvertised , untimetabled trains cruise up and down lines where BR has experienced particular problems . |
| 24 | Reforming such practices as throwing Christians to the lions , putting children up chimneys and down mines and even until quite recently beating them in school , no doubt also met scorn . |
| 25 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 26 | That is not conducive to recovery and nor is the practice of children running up and down wards for hours on end . |
| 27 | The objective must be to keep it simple , yet allow adjustment for up and down inclination of the camera and rotary motion . |
| 28 | So we moved round every three or at the most four years , and er we we 've been up in Scotland and er Yorkshire , Lancashire , and down East Anglia . |
| 29 | For five or ten minutes we were all rushing up and down passages and in and out of rooms , challenging each other and answering , ‘ Smee ? |
| 30 | Up and down rivers and brooks , the remains of some of these and many later water-mills can be seen . |