Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 2 | cos to be honest , the more Mike goes over there , the more he keeps saying he does n't really want to pull the picture frames down |
| 3 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 4 | This is now a quite normal Condition to impose on suppliers , whose output quality may be rigorously tested by customers prior to the acceptance of batches of products ; undertake ( and pay for ) specified research , development and design activities needed to meet the specifications laid down by the customer . |
| 5 | Police agree drivers have got to get the message to slow down |
| 6 | Last week BBC2 's Newsnight happened to have a reporter travelling down the AI , the ‘ backbone of Britain ’ , and what he laid bare was a chain of slipped discs and abscesses . |
| 7 | She was going to burn the whole place down ! |
| 8 | But Chevenement has created a body which is better equipped to achieve the objectives laid down in the law . |
| 9 | We shall at all times continue to meet the criteria laid down by the Department of Transport . |
| 10 | The court itself will , under this Practice Direction , continue to scrutinise every action set down to see whether it is suitable for transfer . |
| 11 | You set the scene , as it were , for your presentation and then proceed to follow the pattern laid down . |
| 12 | ‘ We intend to have the barrier brought down to block off the car park at nights , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |
| 14 | We shall continue to meet the criteria laid down by the Department of Transport . |
| 15 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
| 16 | Once the floorboard piece has beer cut through and removed , you will be able to see whether any electric cables and/or central heating pipes are likely to cause trouble when you come to put the floorboards back down again . |
| 17 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 18 | well they 're all trying to watch the film sit down |
| 19 | They were leaving to eat a curry washed down by whisky from the ex-Jesuit pal upon whose floor they were sleeping . |
| 20 | I remember the over-eager , gaping mouths and outstretched necks , as well as those who could only just about lift their eyelids and had to have the food forced down their throats so that they would have the strength to keep fighting for life . |
| 21 | The down side has included a touch of envy from rivals determined to bring the Barcelona champion down to earth . |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously not , ’ the Doctor replied , trying to prevent the rocks slipping down the roof of the dome . |
| 23 | In Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 the court held that where a lease provides that an application to appoint a surveyor is to be made to a specified appointing body like the RICS , the application had to follow the procedures laid down by that appointing body . |
| 24 | This could be serious if you had to make a side-slip to get down into field on an early flight . |
| 25 | HOLYBOURNE residents are being urged to support a campaign to slow down the traffic through their village . |
| 26 | If you wanted to devise a scheme to slow down growth , you could not do better . |
| 27 | The players need to have a chance to settle down . |