Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Her picture and her silk quilt had been carried down below in the chaos of last night and she did not have the energy to seek them out .
2 ‘ Wayward , twisted psykers are hunted down ruthlessly on a host of worlds .
3 For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again …
4 and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it
5 While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising .
6 In fact , population growth rates are slowing down everywhere in the world — even in Africa .
7 The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written .
8 One law for the rich and another for the poor , as the two systems can be made to seem , are laid down together in a book which commemorates a desertion , on the author 's part , of the rich for the poor .
9 Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on .
10 ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’
11 ‘ Ah just like to know the company Ah 'll be keepin' down there in the Southern Ocean . ’
12 They should be let down properly before the flight and not , as in the case of one of the mares , introduced to racing a week previously in a Windsor selling hurdle .
13 Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time .
14 Slots were left in the floor slab for the steel frame to be bolted down directly into the foundation and then concreted round .
15 Well I I I 'm waiting I I imagined that somebody would be rushing down here with a bottle for me .
16 Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction .
17 so that 's what I 'm saying not this Wednesday but next Wednesday I 'll be going down straight in the morning
18 Where it occurs much lower down a recovery is unlikely , and the accident should be put down either to the failure to maintain a safe airspeed at low altitudes , or to bad planning leading to a situation from which a crash is almost unavoidable .
19 The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself .
20 British Aerospace workers ' hopes of a revival were shot down yesterday with the news that 650 jobs are to be axed .
21 The survey added greatly to our knowledge of the glacial deposits , which were laid down close to the southern limit of ice advance during the Anglian Stage .
22 ‘ Something like 90,000 acres of trees per minute are being chopped down all over the world , ’ contributed Lydia off the top of her head .
23 Each criterion is broken down further into a number of different categories with varied weighted values .
24 Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children .
25 Secondly , it 's very important for me , as the head of a record company , to research what 's going down well on the dancefloor ’
26 He is staring down gloomily into the central quadrangle of the campus .
27 The present social security system is laid down mainly in the Social Security Acts 1975 to 1990 .
28 Indeed , his ambition is to move down now to a minimum deterrent .
29 May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London .
30 Walker is settling down steadily in the centre of defence beside the powerful , abrasive Pietro Vierchowod , the Italian international of Soviet descent .
  Next page