Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
| 2 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 3 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 4 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 5 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 6 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 7 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 8 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 9 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 10 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 11 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 12 | There is a process in chemistry called ‘ denaturing ’ — when food is microwaved , for example , and its component parts break down into a smooth warm mass . |
| 13 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 14 | Eventually we drop down onto a steaming red earth track which cleaves a disappearing seam through dark green ribbons of corn . |
| 15 | The procedure thus adopted is one of first checking the spatial relationships in the orthogonal reference space and , if not as desired , moving down to a local containing domain before the uncertainty is reported . |
| 16 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |
| 17 | The whole assembly can then be given several coats of varnish to help hold the windings in place and glued down to a square mounting board , etc . |
| 18 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 19 | James settled down as a wealthy young laird and later married a daughter of the Swedish Ambassador . |
| 20 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 21 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 22 | There was a straw gypsy hat , tied down with a rich half-lace handkerchief . |
| 23 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 24 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 25 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 26 | All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago . |
| 27 | It 's an Italian design and is the only one we could find that folds down into a little square shape . |
| 28 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 29 | Fiery gold and orange trees shed leaves which drifted down before a bright blue sky . |
| 30 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |