Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS SOON as I see a screen full of Florida palm fronds , broken down clapboard houses and Cadillacs full of heaving , unhappy women , I know we are in for an Erotic Thriller . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 3 | This pathway is again in a dreadful condition with litter , lack of bins and broken down fencing . |
| 4 | Purely on the strength of a chance remark by my retailer , who thought the symptoms could have been caused by metal toxicity , the tank was stripped down piece by piece . |
| 5 | Mr Dance gives us many of the man 's essential qualities : his psychological dependence on his mother , his solitariness ( he is constantly placed down front gazing over the audience 's heads ) , his antique , tribal valour . |
| 6 | Some tanned the leather in season , or boiled down hoof and horn in the great vats that stood inside the ramshackle building of the tannery itself . |
| 7 | Afterwards they went scouting for clays that could be re-used ; some cracked on landing , but others had come down whole . |
| 8 | I 've been through my neighbourhood , where they 've torn down liquor stores and burnt down everything . |
| 9 | Then Joseph and another boy , outrunning the others , had flung themselves on top of the flapping bird and held her down , while the remaining young hunters had torn down bush creepers for rope . |
| 10 | the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client . |
| 11 | At the turn of the year the Fed further nudged down interest rates to encourage the banks ' customers to borrow more . |
| 12 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 13 | Most of those who were fleeing dispersed down side streets and , after a quarter of a mile , the last two ran into a garden as I passed . |
| 14 | Position this end at the leading edge , pinning the tape over the raw edge of the turned down heading allowance , and leaving 2.5cm ( 1in ) above it ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 15 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 16 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 17 | They may have turned down job promotions to allow more time to be with their parents , or to avoid moving abroad or further from home . |
| 18 | The plan drew wide support from schools , universities and industry , but was turned down flat by the Department of Education , apparently on instructions from Downing Street . |
| 19 | But the idea was turned down flat . |
| 20 | The Test of Acceptability was carried out by Lord Pearce and a number of other people , including Lord Harlech , and it was turned down flat by the Africans . |
| 21 | Glenavon chairman Adrian Teer confirmed : ‘ Glentoran will be turned down flat . |
| 22 | When they applied to Stroud District Council for permission to build a house , they were turned down flat . |
| 23 | The women deserve a right to have a proper training , not a watered down version . |
| 24 | Spenser 's A View of the Present State of Ireland was written during 1596 but because it advocated far more severe measures than Elizabeth 's government would tolerate it was not allowed to be published until 1633 when it appeared in a somewhat watered down version edited by Sir James Ware . |
| 25 | ZIG ZAG ( 3 ) : Diluted re-launch of the watered down relaunch ( see above ) . |
| 26 | The ANC favours the much watered down form of regional government . |
| 27 | Lindsey reckons that he is the most shot down pilot in the world , after all , until the appearance on the UK airshow circuit of Spanish-built Messerschmitt ‘ 109s ’ ( Ha 1112MIL Buchons ) in 1988 , Lindsey had the only German ‘ fighter ’ available . |
| 28 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 29 | I 've got it written down love |
| 30 | Amstrad has taken a £7.24 million charge for the restructuring of its Spanish subsidiary , and has also written down computer stock by £3.6 million more . |