Example sentences of "down [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be necessary to dig down for some 3 feet ( 1 metre ) before you break into the rabbit hole . |
| 2 | A great camaraderie and friendship evolved and miracle of miracles , he settled down for some years before a dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorph stole his heart for good . |
| 3 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 4 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 5 | I 'm just can you put me down for some paracetamols for the pain |
| 6 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 7 | I slow down for some cows and greet many people but I do n't usually have to stop now , even for elders . |
| 8 | It burnt the whole factory down for some reason |
| 9 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 10 | The disadvantage of share schemes is , Mr Luder says , that ‘ it is all very well my being an employee of a subsidiary five tiers down of some major plc , and their saying ‘ Here is a dollar for a share option and you will be motivated if the share price rises ’ , but there is no direct link between cause and effect' . |
| 11 | Looking back , it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble . |
| 12 | For instance , sitting down with some of the battered wives , she leaned across the table , chin on hand , asking each woman in turn : ‘ How long can you stay here ? |
| 13 | The ‘ Jungled Up To F— ’ mix brings in XTC ( ho ho ) of Manchester 's Mix Factory to remix and get down with some roughneck business . |
| 14 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 15 | They should sit down with some of us who are interested in these matters and draw up a quality scheme that works . |
| 16 | Bring out the holes down with some new improved shit . |
| 17 | It only requires behaviour to be broken down into some specifics , the equivalent of building blocks , and for those specifics to be cast into a coherent plan of action . |
| 18 | If you break these chords down into some of their usable component intervals you find ideas such as those shown in figs 2–5 … |
| 19 | Place the block oil-side down into some jeweller 's rouge powder , then rub it on to the mirror edge . |
| 20 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 21 | And then Grainne said , ‘ It feels as if we are going down into some terrible prison , ’ and Raynor said , ‘ Yes , it is a prison . |
| 22 | But Marion was staring down into some bleak abyss . |
| 23 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 24 | A number of Education Board members , who can join up to five schools boards of governors , are having to stand down from some of them . |
| 25 | put the music down in some physical form , like a musical score or as a demo tape . |
| 26 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 27 | ‘ One of the very great and rare educators , he knew the art department had to be in the centre of the school , and not way down in some field : he encouraged me to get on with it . ’ |
| 28 | It would be churlish to suggest that either RWC or the Italian Federation fell down in some areas because of a lack of will to make the event succeed . |
| 29 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |
| 30 | It may be that those aspects of a curriculum , such as skills which are readily expressible in behavioural terms could usefully be laid down in some detail while other aspects , such as problem solving would be more loosely specified or , perhaps , not specified at all . |