Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accepted that employment upon the terms as to remuneration laid down in the scale of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors whereby they would receive 10 per cent of one year 's rent defined as ‘ the rent reserved by letting ’ plus any additional service charge . |
| 2 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 3 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 4 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 5 | It 's just to keep it tidy for me and your mummy coming down in the morning son . |
| 6 | However , despite the teacher 's independent authority to discipline pupils , the test laid down in the case of R v Rahman by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane for the limits to a parent 's right to detain his/her child probably offers a guide to teachers . |
| 7 | Anthea kicked the sand with perfect , active little toes and Wilkie 's girl lay down in the shadow of the boat , pulling him down after her , putting an arm over his sweaty waist , claiming . |
| 8 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 9 | As the country is at present face down in the mire , such a development could only have positive benefits for us all . |
| 10 | When Queens have to they do it by a cerebral process passed down in the blood … |
| 11 | ‘ Landing face down in the bottom of a boat would hardly be the way to win the heart of the woman you love . |
| 12 | It was still dark , and he could see the rain slanting down in the light of the street lamps . |
| 13 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 14 | Obtain your LM 's as poppy seed granules from pharmacy which you completely trust as having followed the procedure laid down in the Organon . |
| 15 | I do n't recall ever seeing a big beardy climber lying down in the heather having a tantrum , or a party of Outward Bound students holding their heads and crying into their gaiters , so one is forced to conclude that I am alone in my hill hysteria . |
| 16 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 17 | On our way upstairs we met a gentleman coming down in the dark . |
| 18 | He and his co-pilot settled down in the darkness for the long flight in the cramped cockpit . |
| 19 | In R. ( O'Brien ) v. Military Governor , N.D. U. Internment Camp ( 1924 ) a decision of the old Irish Court of Appeal , a Public Safety ( Emergency Powers ) Act was declared invalid on the ground that it had not been passed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the constitution . |
| 20 | JOHN Major 's tub-thumping speech at the Guildhall on Monday night went down in the City like a lead balloon . |
| 21 | The Marshal sat down in the gloom at the plush-covered table and faced the tearful woman across a bowl of plastic fruit . |
| 22 | A construction company would start a budgeting process from the strategy laid down in the business plan , giving the size and number of jobs it expects to obtain in the given budget period . |
| 23 | Her mother said to her , quite seriously , as if this was advice handed down in the family from mother to daughter since time immemorial , her mother said : ‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’ |
| 24 | I can sit back and watch the day go by , and when the float dips down in the water I know there 's a fish pulling at the line . |
| 25 | The Captain sat down in the Brigadier 's chair where the girl 's effects were neatly folded and labelled . |
| 26 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 27 | I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming |
| 28 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 29 | If the generator broke down in the middle of the night Penry had seen to it that she 'd still be able to lighten her darkness . |
| 30 | Yet for the early mammalian embryo , it seems that Driesch was correct for there is no polarity laid down in the egg . |