Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 2 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 3 | A week later , however , Charlie Allen of the CIA sat down with an undercover agent in North 's office to hear North read from his notebook |
| 4 | So when the Trunchbull sat down on the Golden Syrup , the squelch was beautiful . |
| 5 | ‘ You told me to take the Riverton file down to the vault . |
| 6 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 7 | The Battle of Britain was fought over their heads ; there were dog-fights in the Sussex summer skies , a Messerschmitt shot down on the peaceful Downs . |