Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took them until the 100th minute of an enthralling Rumbelows Cup semi-final second leg to finally break down Spurs ' gallant resistance as former Cobh Ramblers player Keane met Gary Crosby 's corner to beat Erik Thorstvedt with a thumping header . |
| 2 | Chapter 11 works by allowing top management to get the firm out of trouble by drawing up a rescue plan that can involve restructuring the firm and writing down creditors ' claims on its assets . |
| 3 | Attempts to move Currys gradually out of the high street to larger edge-of-town and out-of-town stores and to tone down Dixons ' garish image have yet to bear fruit . |
| 4 | Paying 1% to intermediaries bringing in clients ' money to its lump-sum only Tessas , Save & Prosper ensures loyalty by imposing a £50 transfer fee . |
| 5 | George the 4ft-long grouper spends his days peering down visitors ' cleavages at Blackpool , but ignores men . |
| 6 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 7 | Soccer fans burned down rivals ' stand |
| 8 | So a doctor writes down his patient 's symptoms , an architect writes down his client 's requirements , Hansard records the proceedings of the British Parliament , we write down friends ' addresses , telephone numbers , recipes , knitting patterns , and so on . |
| 9 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 10 | The proliferation of glossy reports , brochures and prospectuses may be good for the designers and a printing company or two , but our impression is that this is more about the marketing of the British government than about marketing West Belfast , and we wonder what it achieves in terms of breaking down outsiders ' negative stereotypes of the area and of the people who live here . |
| 11 | The last hard-left council , Lambeth , now close to organisational and political collapse , still sends shivers down voters ' spines across the capital . |
| 12 | Irwin succeeded in establishing his own , but not in destroying that of Gandhi , which acquired a greater effulgence every time — eight in all — he trudged down Lutyens ' great new processional way , opened with brilliant festivity just a week or so ago , carrying only a manila folder and his ever-present staff , to meet the lord of all the world that most of his fellow Indians knew . |
| 13 | Thus at any particular point in that debate ministers will have to weigh the merits of cutting the hospital building programme or holding down nurses ' salaries against raising the prescription charge , or of reducing the number of home students against charging a higher fee to overseas students . |
| 14 | The Institute of Directors said its survey showed that bosses were not lining their own pockets while holding down employees ' pay . |
| 15 | In the past it has expressed an interest in taking on Cypress ' SuperSparc-compatible part ( UX No 408 ) . |
| 16 | Only one more thing remains to make it so : David Fyfe taking over Lines ' former position of managing director at the troubled chemicals company MTM . |
| 17 | Those who regarded his attendance as vital were probably taken in too much by the spirit of Birkenhead 's subsequent jibe about cabin boys taking over captains ' jobs . |
| 18 | Perhaps the biggest insult of all is when they claim that we 've taken over girls ' work ! |
| 19 | In a Carolingian court , a post like Adalard 's ( the seneschal organised the feeding and accommodation of the royal household ) gave access to the king and also control over others ' access . |
| 20 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 21 | She said they were quite untrustworthy and cut off peoples ' arms and legs unnecessarily in order to keep their hand in , demonstrate their skills and prove that they were earning their money . |
| 22 | They fear that bankers may now reckon to get a better return by selling off firms ' assets quickly than by keeping debtors alive . |
| 23 | Skinny row-crop tyres show off Antares ' rear-end . |
| 24 | The commentator was reeling off horses ' names like an auctioneer , mentioning Shine On only occasionally . |
| 25 | Pre-election talk about cutting off thieves ' hands and stoning adulterers is no longer heard . |
| 26 | To prevent offenders repeating their misbehaviour , we no longer hang murderers , castrate rapists , or cut off thieves ' hands . |
| 27 | A FURIOUS row has erupted over a Muslim leader 's call to lop off thieves ' hands . |
| 28 | Future research will examine in detail the views of clients and seek to demonstrate how effective management systems can be designed to reflect the strengths , weaknesses and aspirations of the people who make up solicitors ' firms . |
| 29 | NOW SUN PICKS UP XYLOGICS ' ANNEX TERMINAL SERVERS |
| 30 | Working in sales and marketing , I am sure you comments in the August issue following the letter from Martin Smith on the buffer zone are deliberately designed to drum up readers ' letters . |