Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] down in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 2 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 3 | Claims brought in respect of loss of cargo will be governed by the rules laid down in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 , the Hague-Visby Rules . |
| 4 | They accepted that employment upon the terms as to remuneration laid down in the scale of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors whereby they would receive 10 per cent of one year 's rent defined as ‘ the rent reserved by letting ’ plus any additional service charge . |
| 5 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 6 | ‘ Get Hawkins to go down in the cellar and help thee , and mind th'do n't get up to any pranks . ’ |
| 7 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 8 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 9 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 10 | It 's just to keep it tidy for me and your mummy coming down in the morning son . |
| 11 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 12 | Wayne Biggins went down in the box . |
| 13 | According to the Americans , a handful of dogfights during the first week produced a lopsided result : nearly a score of the most modern Iraqi French- and Soviet-built fighters shot down in the air for the loss , possibly , of a single American fighter . |
| 14 | However , despite the teacher 's independent authority to discipline pupils , the test laid down in the case of R v Rahman by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane for the limits to a parent 's right to detain his/her child probably offers a guide to teachers . |
| 15 | Maud knelt down in the dust . |
| 16 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 17 | So are the precepts laid down in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 18 | Anthea kicked the sand with perfect , active little toes and Wilkie 's girl lay down in the shadow of the boat , pulling him down after her , putting an arm over his sweaty waist , claiming . |
| 19 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 20 | As the country is at present face down in the mire , such a development could only have positive benefits for us all . |
| 21 | When Queens have to they do it by a cerebral process passed down in the blood … |
| 22 | Léonie and Thérèse knelt down in the straw . |
| 23 | Meryl sank down in the chair gratefully . |
| 24 | ‘ Landing face down in the bottom of a boat would hardly be the way to win the heart of the woman you love . |
| 25 | Blinds drawn down in the heat of the day had made an oasis of quiet shadow , a source of energy that could be drawn on now like a pool of pure water guarded from the dust of the track . |
| 26 | At one stage , fourteen planes touched down in the space of a minute . |
| 27 | Our visit coincided with the World Cup ( football , not skiing ! ) and a multinational throng of British , New Zealand , German and Norwegian guests settled down in the lounge to watch the occasional match amidst much merriment , fuelled by the occasional incursion by the proprietor carrying trays of schnapps . |
| 28 | Look Ralph erm if , if you do n't mind me saying can you remember if you do this could you just give me a ring and say it 's done , if not Sid come down in the morning . |
| 29 | It was still dark , and he could see the rain slanting down in the light of the street lamps . |
| 30 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |