Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knocker suddenly stopped mopping down the bar and looked at Yanto . |
| 2 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 3 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 4 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 5 | In this sense professionals have already attempted to break down the norms of public discourse to bring on the clients of welfare who have suffered in silence . |
| 6 | Few can afford those sorts of funds : Maxwell was finally forced to close down the London Daily News in 1987 in the face of mounting costs . |
| 7 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 8 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 9 | Police inquiries have so far failed to track down the culprits and now the victim has appealed for his heroic rescuer to come forward and help the investigation . |
| 10 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 11 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 12 | Robin Horton , in a widely cited article on African systems of thought ( 1967 ) , likewise attempted to break down the elements of scientific thinking in order to demonstrate that so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples such as the Azande did in fact make use of the same elements of thought , although applied to different content . |