Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 2 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 3 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The two of them looked at it , as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum . |
| 6 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 7 | The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway . |
| 8 | The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder . |
| 9 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 10 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 13 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 14 | Both the trial judge and the Court of Appeal applied the law laid down by the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division in Reg. v. Commissioner for Local Administration , Ex parte Croydon London Borough Council [ 1989 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 15 | Outside , the sun beat down on the red baked earth of Provence , but the summer salon was cool . |
| 16 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 17 | The sun shone down on the grassy slopes , accentuating petal colour : blue of germander speed well , pink of camp ion , mauve of tufted vetch and white of stitchwort . |
| 18 | The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees . |
| 19 | We looked back and up , and for a moment the Towers ' summits were flecked with gold , before the sun slid down behind the unseen horizon and all Chile was plunged into blackness . |
| 20 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 21 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |
| 22 | Heliopsis snatched a dramatic late verdict under George Duffield in the Tennents Special Handicap as the curtain came down on the 1992 Scottish Flat racing programme . |
| 23 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 24 | The B–17 pilot then skilfully brought the bomber down in front of the cameras , which recorded the dramatic crash landing as the right wing slammed down on the two right props and engines . |
| 25 | The Collector looked down at the gaunt , upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs . |
| 26 | Rain looked down into the steep cleft of another valley . |
| 27 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 28 | Some of these legendary figures may be dead , so , for instance , the Yorkshire Ripper took up a mantle laid down by the original Ripper in the last century . |
| 29 | We suggest that the procedure laid down in the Environmental Protection Act for registers under parts I and VI of the Act could be used in this situation . |
| 30 | After a period of popular unrest , Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced in an interim capacity by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , under a procedure laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |