Example sentences of "down [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 2 | They ai n't you wan na be careful when you 're walking down that park it 's |
| 3 | End up later on square 46 denoting Andrew and Fergie 's separation and down that snake you go . |
| 4 | Well when he 'd cl er hooked it on the wagon , he puts that clip on , and he press down that arrow . |
| 5 | I saw her tipped down that cliff . " |
| 6 | ‘ Get down that rope , all of you . |
| 7 | You ca n't see down that part of the cloister leading off from the chapel into the convent . |
| 8 | Obviously a great thickness of sediment must he heavy and must press down that part of the crust on which it rests , just as the weight of continental ice caused subsidence of the great land masses during the Pleistocene . |
| 9 | Just less than half the money created went down that drain . |
| 10 | When he got his breath back he told Sutton it was imperative they sat down that night , the next night , the night after — however long it would take to thrash out a plan for the paper . |
| 11 | So when the sun went down that night , and indeed . |
| 12 | Yet in my view there is nothing in the authorities which precludes your Lordship 's House from laying down that money paid by way of tax following an ultra vires demand by the revenue is recoverable . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes really , because I know that if you go down that tunnel , you 'll be dead . ’ |
| 14 | Put down that Gameboy and your copy of Madonna 's Sex , clean up the mess , pour yourself a pale cream sherry and mull over the year that 's drawing to a close . |
| 15 | It would be a tough-minded individual who could lay down that story after reading those two short sentences . |
| 16 | I do n't want things stuffing down that hole . |
| 17 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 18 | With a wry smile she added , ‘ They 'll fink I 'm a Bolshevik when I go down that Council on Monday mornin' . ’ |
| 19 | I find nothing in the Act to indicate that Parliament thought or intended to lay down that indulgence in these practices is not corrupting . |
| 20 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 21 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 22 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 23 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 24 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 25 | He 's he 's travelled sixty miles come down that way |
| 26 | heading down that way , is there nothing down there ? |
| 27 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 28 | ‘ My daughter lives down that way . |
| 29 | They come down that way . |
| 30 | Cos you go down that way Albert . |