Example sentences of "[verb] down in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |
| 2 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 3 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 4 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 5 | She was glad to get home , to wash the grit from the paths off her feet , to sit down in the cool unglaring indoors . |
| 6 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 7 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Back down in the secret gareden there 's still plenty to explore , including more tunnels — some of which are not empty … |
| 9 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 10 | Sick leave will be granted under the terms laid down in the Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code . |
| 11 | We suggest that the procedure laid down in the Environmental Protection Act for registers under parts I and VI of the Act could be used in this situation . |
| 12 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 13 | ‘ Friends of Killynure ’ fearing that , Killynure House will be closed despite claims that the present home subscribes fully to the criteria laid down in the consultative document for the provision of residential care for elderly people , now appeal to the fast growing community of Carryduff and surrounding areas to support the fight for the retention of the home by signing a petition against closure . |
| 14 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 15 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 16 | When it comes to crime and punishment , the penalties laid down in the Old Testament for offences against the person are more severe than for offences against property . |
| 17 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |
| 18 | An exclusion clause , which purports to exclude or limit liability under these terms , is subject to the rules already outlined in this chapter , including the rules laid down in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 19 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 20 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 21 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 22 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 23 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 24 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 25 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 26 | Philip dropped down in the old bracken . |
| 27 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 28 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 29 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 30 | Doors were damaged , windows smashed , light fittings torn out and curtains ripped down in the mindless spree , discovered yesterday morning . |