Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 2 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 3 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 4 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 6 | You can choose between matt , satin or gloss finishes for the degree of shine you want , and can then merely wipe down with a damp cloth to keep clean . |
| 7 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 8 | Last month the local PRI rammed through a law postponing the state election for 18 months , only to back down after a national outcry . |
| 9 | Surrounded by extensive and enclosed grounds it is perfect for children who can play in complete freedom while their elders relax on the lawns that gently slope down to an attractive swimming pool . |
| 10 | But the odds were weighted against reason , and other parts of the mind , like some Resistance movement long held down in an oppressed country , came out into the open . |
| 11 | She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’ |
| 12 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 13 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 14 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 15 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 16 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 17 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 18 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 19 | The hammer finally slammed down on an empty chamber . |
| 20 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 21 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 22 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 23 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 24 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 25 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 26 | A warm stream of urine was soon gushing down upon the naked flesh of her full white bubbies — splashing on to her stomach , and into the hollow of her throat . |
| 27 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 28 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 29 | Others stoutly denied this matriarchal ascendency , insisting that , following its promiscuous episode , early society soon settled down under a patriarchal régime in which the opposite sex knew its place and kept it . |
| 30 | Schools should be able to request more frequent inspections so that the best practice of a few is not brought down to the standard practice of the many . |