Example sentences of "[verb] down [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 2 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 3 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 4 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 5 | It would tie down a lot of troops and would also give Phnom Penh the opportunity to raise international alarm at the spectre of the return of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 6 | The pair have tracked down a lot of information about the Pagefield Ironworks including some of the original draughtsmen 's drawings . |
| 7 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 8 | You see this post standing up here now we 've got down a lot lower this time , in fact , I think , it 's the same post . |
| 9 | By the time it gets to the sea then it 's slowed down a lot , it 's usually carrying very fine silt , |
| 10 | I would have slowed down a lot more than that . |
| 11 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |
| 12 | Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent . |
| 13 | And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there . |
| 14 | It had gone down a lot though . |
| 15 | But it 's gone down a lot . |
| 16 | I suppose if you 're buying by the thousands the price 'd come down a lot , but when we were only buying about , you know , forty odd plants |
| 17 | And the Germans have calmed down a lot , you 've got to admit that . |
| 18 | But she 's calmed down a lot . |
| 19 | Though he did not dictate , he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said . |
| 20 | I 'm me and Colin are settling down a lot compared to what we were five year ago . |
| 21 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 22 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 23 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |