Example sentences of "[verb] down in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 2 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
| 3 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 4 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 5 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 6 | Uneaten food , and anything once living that dies or lies in the tank will break down in a similar fashion . |
| 7 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 8 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 9 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 10 | In pre-summit manoeuvres , European trade union leaders also warned of the ‘ danger of social strife ’ if the 1992 market arrived without proper social protection for workers and criticised France for allowing the Charter to be watered down in a doomed effort to win Mrs Thatcher 's support . |
| 11 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 12 | I should be inside , Robyn thought , lying down in a darkened room . |
| 13 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 14 | Faded now to dirty cream , and thrust down in a crumpled ball to the base of the chest — but still instantly known . |
| 15 | They grew unofficially , here and there , interspersed with beech — which shed its leaves like autumn in the spring , willows , the ballerinas of the forest in a permanent static pirouette , their white seeds drifting down in a slow shower against the blue sky , and the tireless gorse , the popping of its seeds breaking the silence of high summer . |
| 16 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 17 | Synthetics soon replaced cotton , an ostensibly practical move that saved players from being bogged down in a waterlogged kit that ripped easily . |
| 18 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 19 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 20 | It was he whom Matthew had brought down in a flying tackle . |
| 21 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
| 22 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
| 23 | We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers . |
| 24 | I wish I could be doing something , moving , he thought , with an infantryman 's loathing of being pinned down in a known position . |
| 25 | Only when the cells leave the zone do some begin to differentiate into cartilage ; and , as just stated , the cartilage elements are laid down in a proximo-distal sequence — first humerus , then radius and ulna , and only then wrist , and finally hand . |
| 26 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 27 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 28 | Cupping his hands round his mouth , he called down in a loud whisper . |
| 29 | The only passion involved in this operation was an overmastering desire to see her nailed down in a brown box . |
| 30 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |