Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 2 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 3 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 4 | Here and there the open doors of furnaces glowed a dangerous red , and in the far corner of the building what looked like a stream of molten lava trickled down a curved channel from roof to floor . |
| 5 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
| 6 | At snow falling down the blinded door . |
| 7 | At the side put down a rough guess of the cost that might be involved . |
| 8 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 9 | A KILLER gunned down a young father at his seaside home for no apparent reason . |
| 10 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 11 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 12 | When he saw Topaz climbing down a rough slope he brought Nero to a halt , an overwhelming surge of life running through him as if he were being born anew . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 15 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
| 16 | The law lays down the general principle , and the doctor who acts skilfully , reasonably , and in good faith is protected . |
| 17 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 18 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 19 | The sun beams down an astonishing amount of energy to our planet — one year 's global energy use in the space of an hour . |
| 20 | Then Diane found a switch and threw it , and a weak pool of illumination washed down a white screen on the back wall . |
| 21 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 22 | Ten years ago a light beam passed down an optical fibre was reduced by 99 per cent to one per cent of its original strength after travelling just one kilometre . |
| 23 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 24 | This stream passes down a wooded ravine with no access , steps having to be retraced to the Old Ing road . |
| 25 | The barmaid turned down the chintzy bed cover . |
| 26 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 27 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 28 | The question presented itself at yesterday 's Foyle 's lunch in Mayfair , when the distinguished scientist Sir Rudolf Peierls took an early siesta during an interesting speech by Lord Zuckerman , whose new book we were celebrating , and who at that very moment looked down the top table and described Peierls , rightly , as ‘ one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists ever ’ . |
| 29 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 30 | You might say ham put down the Spanish ham . |