Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 4 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 5 | A star with a mass more than about twice that of the sun can not settle down as a white dwarf or neutron star . |
| 6 | The chairman , Chris Patten , will shortly sit down with the new head of the Downing Street policy unit , Sarah Hogg , to write the first draft of Mr Major 's manifesto . |
| 7 | Not quite a donkey but Wallaces goal to win the league at Sheff Utd will probably go down as the jammiest ever in my book . |
| 8 | In a gap in the trees I can now look down over a green vegetable pointillism of tree-tops , falling away down to the town . |
| 9 | There is a fire-tinge of violence to it here in New York , as there is to everything in this city , which just wo n't slow down like the other city did and get more innocent and less crazy and less dirty-colourful . |
| 10 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 11 | Could well go down as a second own goal of the match . |
| 12 | The 1984 British Open may well go down as the Open that was lost by two players as much as it was won by Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 13 | These flows were relatively small and they did n't get down to the lower , inhabited parts of the mountain . |
| 14 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
| 15 | So , to extend Israel 's result to include rotating bodies , it was conjectured that any rotating body that collapsed to form a black hole would eventually settle down to a stationary state described by the Kerr solution . |