Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a long walk down the Iron Pier . |
| 2 | According to the Boston Herald , he is like ‘ a long drive down a desert highway : a smooth , fast trip through rugged territory , temperatures that range from bone-chilling cool to blistering heat , a landscape that is monumental , bleak and beautiful ’ . |
| 3 | Brahmadaitya are kind to humans , though should one be foolish enough to chop down the palm tree where this spirit lives , the offender 's neck will be snapped , like a twig . |
| 4 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 5 | Just hold down the fire button to determine strength , and position the joystick as for a standard kick . |
| 6 | You just get out the path , you just get down the school path |
| 7 | So it 's an impact outside of just closing down the car factory , and on the question of the effects on the community . |
| 8 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 9 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 10 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 11 | Naturally , you would not normally shut down the LIFESPAN Process while Offline is running . |
| 12 | Despite allaying concerns felt by some teachers , the adviser did not play down the accountability purpose to the exercise , nor was the self-appraisal presented as much more than providing factual information and describing their policy and practice . |
| 13 | WEST Ham defender Colin Foster yesterday turned down a £425,000 move to crisis club Nottingham Forest . |
| 14 | Lambert realized that far below the barrage was still pounding away ; that the observers reports were still going down the telephone wire , correcting ranges and bearings , selecting new targets from the shop window of the British Front . |
| 15 | Although they are a principled pair — they once turned down the Smarties Award on moral grounds — the Ahlbergs reject the notion of children 's author as moralist . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the effect on unemployment of the announcement by British Coal to further run down the coal industry in his own and in neighbouring constituencies . ’ |
| 17 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 18 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 19 | Nigel was strapped into a light commode in a sitting position and had been carefully carried down the fire escape to the waiting car . |
| 20 | Reda Adam , ten , and her father , a cycle repairman in Ismailia , also turned down a £25,000 reward from the owner , an Australian tourist . |
| 21 | Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators , who also burned down a trade union office and fired guns outside the office of the National Front for Change and Democracy ( FNCD — a loose coalition group led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide ) because both had allegedly called for Préval 's resignation . |
| 22 | Two Medau class members from former days have also tracked down the Truro class . |
| 23 | It is also worth noting here that the only mid-Tertiary movements in northern Europe that can be called an orogeny are in Spitsbergen , where we find the last expression of an Atlantic compressive line clearly preserved down the west coast , presumably reflecting the continued grinding together of the northernmost tip of the European plate with that of Greenland . |
| 24 | Yeo also turned down the Health committee 's call for a DoH contingency fund , which would underwrite SSDs faced with unexpected demand . |
| 25 | But those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US Transportation Secretary , Federico Pena , also laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 26 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 27 | It also sets down the project team , encompasses all the functions involved within that scheme , thus ensuring that early contact is made between all individuals . |
| 28 | The crash also pushed down the output-capital ratio , by an average of one tenth , as excess capacity mounted . |
| 29 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 30 | So far from sending prices up , the abolition of licensing would immediately bring down the market price of existing houses and would in a short time begin to make an impression on the costs of new ones ; for the pressure of demand for new houses at a cost of nearly £2,000 apiece for a council-type is , in our opinion , very limited . |