Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 2 | Bones bore down on the obstacle and Hoomey shut his eyes . |
| 3 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 4 | Bike and biker parted company and , some slow-motion seconds later , my two front teeth touched down on the tarmac . |
| 5 | I mean what what sort of things happen down on the ground ground level ? |
| 6 | Dwarf armies marched down on the trading city of Tor Alessi ( present day L'Anguille in Bretonnia ) and laid siege to it . |
| 7 | Brilliant constellations shone down on the discworld . |
| 8 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 9 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 10 | The children lie down on the floor and they have to stay absolutely still . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary Michael Howard has announced measures to cut down on the amount of police paperwork and put more officers back onto the streets . |
| 12 | Photographs may be prepared by placing negative sheets or printing papers face down on the glass viewing plate . |
| 13 | NEW LAWS to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland were ‘ nodded through ’ without dissent in the Commons yesterday . |
| 14 | There were also some complicated sleeping arrangements to juggle : all Emma 's friends were to stay in the ‘ commun ’ while most of the rest of the young people brought sleeping bags and pillows to put down on the marquee floor . |
| 15 | An apparently apocryphal account is of two Prussian medical officers , Fritsch and Hitzig , who In 1870 took advantage of the opportunity offered by the Franco-Prussian War to study the exposed brains of soldiers struck down on the battlefield . " |
| 16 | As every woman knows , her hair is her crowning glory , or rather she knows that it should be , but there are those of us who are unhappily aware that , too often , our looks fall down on the job . |
| 17 | Electric rays lurk down on the ocean bed , often in shallow water , and they can deliver a painful shock to any person unfortunate enough to step on one . |