Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 5 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 6 | Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ? |
| 7 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 8 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 9 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 10 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 11 | Along one of its sides the swastika meander breaks down into a confused key pattern . |
| 12 | As the floor levelled off the lights flickered and came up , the engine noise settling down to a steady background roar . |
| 13 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 14 | These often show a winter profile combed down into a series of bars and troughs caused by the destructive waves of winter storms and a steeper summer profile with a large inshore berm built up by swell waves of constructive type . |
| 15 | The Newcastle woman saw her compensation claim turned down by the CICB , while the London woman received partial compensation of £5,000 . |
| 16 | Once a week a ten-minute helicopter flight ( £20 ) soars over the harbour , heads out to sea to hover over inviting beaches and then on its return trip swoops down between the mountains , close to the hang-gliders . |
| 17 | There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern . |
| 18 | The paramount feature of pentatonic scales is the absence of semitones : This absence of semitones has two effects : there is no leading note to pull towards the tonic ; and no fourth degree note to gravitate down to the third . |
| 19 | His small but powerful 5' 8 ’ frame was ideally suited to the cramped conditions of a space capsule , his body weight pared down to the absolute minimum for his build . |
| 20 | The harsh central neon light glared down onto the contours of the sheeting , and gouged back at Erlich 's eyes from the white-tiled walls . |
| 21 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 22 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 23 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 24 | Perhaps the lack of team success comes down to the fact that only three Minor Counties had home ties . |
| 25 | Nurse Amanda Cadder saw the Essex post worker shot down in a Florida car park . |
| 26 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 27 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 28 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 29 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 30 | Sock Shop shuts down in the US . |