Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 2 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 3 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 4 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 5 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 6 | It considered that if the Community 's system of quotas in its present form allowed member states to introduce certain requirements whose compatibility with Community law could only be justified by the necessity to attain the objectives of that system , then such requirements could only be incorporated into the quota licences or other quota management measures which the United Kingdom must lay down for the management of its quotas under article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , and not be imposed as conditions for the registration of vessels . |
| 7 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 8 | The new regulatory body for the direct sales channel should cut down on the risks involved in buying a computer direct |
| 9 | For both reasons , the amount of looking at the listener should go down during a phase of speech production which involves a large amount of cognitive planning . |
| 10 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 11 | The Government says they should go down by an average of £55 . |
| 12 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 13 | The viewing figure must go down by a half now . |
| 14 | ‘ This must lead down to the road , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 15 | ‘ The other must come down from the Ridgery . ’ |
| 16 | So after gravitational collapse a black hole must settle down into a state in which it could be rotating , but not pulsating . |
| 17 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 18 | I should sit down to the job Tim and you wo n't fall over . |
| 19 | Antonio 's mother said : ‘ They shouted that everyone should lie down on the floor , that anyone who looked around would be killed … they tied up Antonio and grabbed my youngest son ( 16 year old Jose Custodio ) . |
| 20 | For now you must lie down on the bed and go to sleep . ’ |
| 21 | With me on his back he must fly down to the Gruncher . |
| 22 | Instead of being critical , adversarial or even sceptical , the media should bow down to the needs of the country so as to encourage development across all sectors . |
| 23 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 24 | First the Cutty Sark and then we 'll explore down by the river . |
| 25 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll go down to the station and talk to Perks , ’ she thought . |
| 27 | He was sixty-four now , and no doubt tired , but as soon as we had finished tea he said , " We 'll go down to the river and you can try for a salmon . " |
| 28 | And , if you do n't mind , I think I 'll go down to the beach now . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'll go down to the church and park by the church , how about that ? |
| 30 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |