Example sentences of "[to-vb] down a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 2 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 3 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 4 | It is actually a fairly simple matter , well within the capability of Neolithic and Bronze Age people , to set down a straight line across hilly country using three surveying poles . |
| 5 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 6 | This went through some crises , as when the Americans dispatched marines to put down a left-wing government in the British island of Grenada in 1984 , without communicating their intentions to the British government . |
| 7 | The massacre occurred at night after President Alan Garcia ordered the security forces to put down a co-ordinated rebellion in three jails by prisoners associated with the Maoist guerrilla movement , Sendero Luminoso , on the eve of a Socialist International congress here . |
| 8 | WREXHAM Maelor Borough Council last night again refused to say Yes or No to a bid to knock down a former hospital despite being warned it could face legal action . |
| 9 | It is not possible to lay down a general rule for recording findings and reasons since that depends on the nature of the evidence and of the case . |
| 10 | By the early 1970s the increasing demand for higher education forced the government to lay down a new structure for higher education , embodied in the Hochschulrahrnengesetz . |
| 11 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion . |
| 12 | However , it is impossible to lay down a precise test against which the adequacy of disclosure may be assessed . |