Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is open and defenceless against the machetes which slash down the undergrowth for tinder. — when the tinder is dry the fires can be lit to burn off the remaining forest to make way for agriculture or ranching ( in many areas this ‘ slash and burn ’ forest clearance happens without first even removing the usable hardwood ) . |
| 2 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 3 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 4 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 5 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 6 | There 's an article of the Constitution which lays down the fields with which Parliament may concern itself . |
| 7 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you remember what I told you , about the woman who called down the curse on your many-times great-grandmother . ’ |
| 9 | Interestingly , there is a single ‘ command ’ neurone which can cause an increased supply of blood to the body , by stimulating the two accelerating neurones , and inhibiting the neurones which slow down the heart , and also those that constrict the blood-vessels . |
| 10 | The tomatoes you bought down the market |
| 11 | The sages who lay down the law in this party have always said that if Ms Aloni left education , where she was ‘ poisoning the innocent souls of Israel 's children ’ , they could contemplate joining Mr Rabin . |
| 12 | Michael Heseltine , The Man Who Brought Down Mrs Thatcher , and last week the man who brought down the house in a dazzling Commons performance . |
| 13 | The Edinburgh " female question " clearly had repercussions outside the city , as can be seen from the reasons given by the Arbiter who turned down the Glasgow compositors " pay-claim in 1904 . |
| 14 | The birthday princess was serenaded by Phil the year she turned down the offer of a party from Charles . |
| 15 | The way they joke about their LP going to 207 ‘ with an anchor ’ , the way they break down the myths of the American Dream and the Troubles back home … |
| 16 | The way it slips down the neck of your new one-piece after you 've crossed your tips and plunged head-first into the stuff . |
| 17 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 18 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 19 | The first FMLN announcement stated that one of the advisers had died instantly and the others within minutes from their injuries ; however , a further statement on Jan. 9 noted that two members of the unit which brought down the helicopter had been arrested on charges of murdering wounded prisoners of war , and that they would be dealt with according to " war justice " if found guilty . |
| 20 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 21 | He was worried about them and by the time he came down the gang had gone . |
| 22 | If the nylon itself breaks down the tent is irreparable . |
| 23 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 24 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 25 | The Ponting case also illustrates the ways in which the legitimacy of the state may be threatened if any of its various temporary governors act in a way which breaks down the distinction between state and government , and by wrapping the acts of particular governments in the flag of the state , make it impossible to attack one without assaulting the other . |
| 26 | As with the other grammatical devices we have been considering , the function of the article is to set contextual co-ordinates in a way which narrows down the range of inference . |
| 27 | He takes the flak every time he walks down the touchline . ’ |
| 28 | This is done either by an enzyme which breaks down the neurotransmitter or , more commonly , the neurotransmitter can be transported back into the presynaptic area . |
| 29 | Without waiting for an answer he disappeared down the ladder . |