Example sentences of "[verb] down on the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 2 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 3 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 4 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 5 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 6 | Kolchinsky sat down on the second chair and handed Philpott a brown packet . |
| 7 | He sat down on the next stool . |