Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 2 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 3 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 4 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 6 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 7 | The new format certainly appeared to go down well with the packed crowd . |
| 8 | What has happened because this problem has been recognised is that the police are having to go down there on a regular basis and actually stop people doing this stupid manoeuvre . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah just like to know the company Ah 'll be keepin' down there in the Southern Ocean . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time . |
| 11 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 12 | It will nearly always be easier subsequently to reach agreement to extend the partnership than to persuade an elderly partner to stand down voluntarily before the contractual date : hence the relative unpopularity of agreements which simply permit a partner at his option to retire upon reaching a certain age . |
| 13 | Larger areas of track can be lifted off by applying Sellotape , pressing down firmly onto the offending artwork , and then lifting off sharply . |
| 14 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 15 | It 's an interesting mixture of management and overhead-view arcade action , and let down slightly by the latter . |
| 16 | He was standing there , at the window , looking down thoughtfully through the broad crowns of the trees . |
| 17 | ‘ Mighty magic , ’ commented the barbarian , pushing down heavily on the complaining blade with a hand the size of a ham . |
| 18 | Output down sharply in the third quarter of 1992 , with September registering a 0.4 per cent fall |
| 19 | Lili came down again in a black jersey frock and fresh lipstick and carrying the scent of some strange perfume . |
| 20 | Some way below the garden a man stood quietly washing himself in the hot water from the spring ; it was channelled down there in a homemade aqueduct of halved bamboo stalks resting on forked twigs . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , walk down there in a little while . |
| 22 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 23 | Very few of the most senior people training establishments bedded down well within the operational theatre . |
| 24 | Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction . |
| 25 | Nathaniel Sherman frowned down resentfully at the dead animal . |
| 26 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 27 | Hood : a well-shaped hood which closes down well for a snug fit . |
| 28 | The impression was reinforced by Elton squatting down comfortably on the front-stage light box mid-story . |
| 29 | His words flowed down smoothly as the black cloth of his soutane . |
| 30 | The air remained unnaturally hot and humid for the time of the year , and the sun shone down again from the brightening sky . |