Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
2 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
3 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
4 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
5 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
6 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
7 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
8 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
9 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
10 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
11 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
12 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
13 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
14 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
15 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
16 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
17 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
18 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
19 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
20 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
21 | Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons . |
22 | Arranged them by pushing the ‘ record ’ and ‘ play ’ buttons down at the same time . |
23 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
24 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
25 | The engine backs down upon a few trucks , perhaps a single one ; there is a quick manipulation of a coupling stick , and the engine draws off with its insignificant load . |
26 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
27 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
28 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
29 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
30 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |