Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 2 | He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand . |
| 3 | P.U.M.P. : ‘ Barabajagal ( Love Is Hot ) ’ ( Ultimate ) out of the ashes of the Junior Manson Slags arrives Aqua Marina , with her Purple Under Melted Pink getting down on the dancefloor with a hot and sultry Donovan song . |
| 4 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 5 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 6 | Mr Cubbage , now a broken , weeping figure lay down on the rail and waited for the train to end his life and his earthly troubles . |
| 7 | The reception , in a vast lightwell running north-south , is constantly catching light reflected down on the arcade of shops and a cafe beneath where patients may , in effect , ‘ go out ’ . |
| 8 | This permits the ring to move down on the line under greater tension , and up on the opposite side which would be on the outside of a turn . |
| 9 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 10 | The priest sat down on the bench next to him . |
| 11 | The sun beat down on the discomfort of the watchers , wondering if they were meant to clap or what . |
| 12 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 13 | Others sprang to the defence of their rulers and the argument became furious until a heavy fist banged down on the table and bottles and food went flying . |
| 14 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 15 | And the RUC is urging for public help to clamp down on the level of incidents throughout the province . |
| 16 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 17 | A FAST-TRACK law to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland is to be backed by the Government . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't want to be sitting by Long Island Sound with the sun shining down on the water and the sky streaked with apricot when you hear the news that your Dad has died . |
| 19 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 20 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 21 | You can feel the heat of the sun beating down on the water as it rocks you . |
| 22 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 23 | The entire village closed down on the day of the funeral , and the trickle of early-season trippers found themselves looking around bemused at the drawn curtains in the houses and the handwritten notes in the shop windows before shrugging to themselves and passing on through . |
| 24 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 25 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 26 | Mouse flopped down on the floor and started to giggle . |
| 27 | The sail came down on the run . |
| 28 | Heavy rain drummed down on the canvas overhead . |
| 29 | Forester set the canvas roll down on the ground and undid the tape that bound it up . |
| 30 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |