Example sentences of "down in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this firm closed down in 1843 he transferred to the locomotive drawing office of the Railway Foundry works , Leeds , of Messrs Shepherd & Todd , where he became acting chief draughtsman . |
| 2 | DOWN in deepest Nesbitt Land , war has been declared on the mushy pea and the greasy chip . |
| 3 | He will not however go down in financial history as a great achiever , and it has to be said ( as recorded later in these pages ) that even under his leadership labour relations were far from perfect . |
| 4 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 5 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 6 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 7 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 8 | As a result Farnborough took over from Andover as the place to skate so Andover closed down in late 1982/early 1983 . |
| 9 | The Ford car plant had been shut down in late July after striking metalworkers ransacked the plant . |
| 10 | Certainly in the class-room those from two feet to two feet only go straight up and down in all changements , soubresauts and entrechats with both legs fully extended at the height of the jump . |
| 11 | Fifteen wickets were to go down in all that day , and although Gooch and Robinson made a sound start , once they were separated the procession continued as normal . |
| 12 | The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds . |
| 13 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 14 | It tells the fascinating story of his summer of 1991 , which he spent flying a Stearman ( nicknamed Cannibal Queen ) around the USA , touching down in all 48 states of the continental United States . |
| 15 | After opening this campaign with a 6-0 , 6-1 win over Greece 's Christina Papaduka , Evert said : ‘ I feel I let the team down in that match two years ago . |
| 16 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 17 | And after dinner sometimes he will sit down in that chair and go to sleep ! |
| 18 | And the Japanese advances in eastern Asia nourished the hopes that the United States would be completely tied down in that theatre of war . |
| 19 | And Letterworth had said that the deal was bogging down in that bloody stupid Olympic fracas and the Afghan mess , and that he did n't give a shit for politics , only for selling engines . |
| 20 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 21 | A State exercising a right by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party is bound to comply with any conditions laid down in that provision , or elsewhere in the treaty for the exercise of the right . |
| 22 | A whole thicket of broom bushes came down in that slip , as you saw . |
| 23 | I do not want to get bogged down in that subject as I want to press on and try to answer questions asked . |
| 24 | ‘ When I 'm coming down in that parachute , I 'm feeling pretty nervous , but it 's wonderful the way I can feel the audience reacting warmly towards me . |
| 25 | Down in that dip we will be completely out of sight . |
| 26 | Well that 's been caused with a plant being put down in that now . |
| 27 | I 'm not riding down in that ! |
| 28 | So , she could send , you can send stuff down in that can you ? |
| 29 | erm we 're not gon na go mad knocking picture frames down in that room , it 's too much of a big job |
| 30 | when , do n't forget what I said get down in that garage |