Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 … |
| 3 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact , population growth rates are slowing down everywhere in the world — even in Africa . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ah just like to know the company Ah 'll be keepin' down there in the Southern Ocean . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time . |
| 12 | Slots were left in the floor slab for the steel frame to be bolted down directly into the foundation and then concreted round . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | so that 's what I 'm saying not this Wednesday but next Wednesday I 'll be going down straight in the morning |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | British Aerospace workers ' hopes of a revival were shot down yesterday with the news that 650 jobs are to be axed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children . |
| 20 | Secondly , it 's very important for me , as the head of a record company , to research what 's going down well on the dancefloor ’ |
| 21 | He is staring down gloomily into the central quadrangle of the campus . |
| 22 | The present social security system is laid down mainly in the Social Security Acts 1975 to 1990 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Walker is settling down steadily in the centre of defence beside the powerful , abrasive Pietro Vierchowod , the Italian international of Soviet descent . |
| 25 | The weaving yarn was caught down randomly across the row , but in a different way on adjacent rows , and in such a way that the design was largely floats ( swatch 3 , card 3 ) . |
| 26 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
| 27 | We read that the meaning of the embellishment on metalwork ‘ can not be recaptured from the archaeological material ’ and it can not be interpreted from the ‘ surviving literature , which was written down long after the inception of the style ’ ( Wilson 1976a , p. 3 ) . |
| 28 | This sparked off two days of rioting , with widespread looting and burning : it was put down only after the declaration of martial law . |
| 29 | Now the suddenly released , accumulated weight of all those pent-up seconds was bearing down heavily on the unbraced stones . |