Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 2 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 3 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 4 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 5 | He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ . |
| 6 | Well he jumps down into the fucking lift shaft and he slipped on i oh eh well you fucking bastard you ! |
| 7 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 8 | It boils down to a sharp retraction in the Plains economy . |
| 9 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 10 | Because a lifetime of debauchery somehow loses its romantic kudos once it winds down to a respectable job and keep-fit classes ; it stops being a biopic and starts sounding like a how-I-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person telefilm . |
| 11 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 12 | Two hundred miles from land the fierce Amazon river stained the dark water darker , red with the silt it carries down from the secret jungles and mountains of the New World . |
| 13 | ‘ … unfortunately , ’ Michele went on , ‘ I have n't a clue as to where Lucia 's secret hiding-place might be , so it comes down to a straightforward search . ’ |
| 14 | And it comes down to a basic difference of approach to this . |
| 15 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |
| 16 | A very strange way of writing it again but basically it comes down to the following . |
| 17 | But in the end , at that last hour , it comes down to the 15 and everything we do is focused down on that last hour . ’ |