Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 2 | ‘ Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself . |
| 3 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 4 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 5 | NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO just might go down as a memorable year in the history of Britain , if not the rest of the world . |
| 6 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 7 | On Rob 's morning show , join me Jenny this Monday , the nineteenth of July , when I 'll pop down to the Urban Traffic Control Centre in Nottingham City Centre , to switch on all those traffic lights . |
| 8 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 9 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 10 | Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’ |
| 11 | said of driving all the way back round to collect them , he said I could walk down to the Jolly Farmers |
| 12 | They could go down to the Sain Caernarfon League . |
| 13 | Would n't be too bad cos you 'd go down by the Jolly Farmer . |
| 14 | Even if I could get down to the required , modest depth , what could I possibly about the swamp ? |
| 15 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 16 | to there hiatus , hiatus hernia , ooh terrible you 're stitched all inside ooh it 's like you could sit down to a beautiful tea tonight and enjoy it and then you could sit down to your breakfast in morning , one bite and that was you finished |
| 17 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 18 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 19 | Leaks from Clinton 's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn . |
| 20 | In their small hamlets drink was associated with Cossack brutality , when horsemen would swoop down into the Jewish shtetels after Easter and terrorize the people . |
| 21 | This means that even if there were events before the big bang , one could not use them to determine what would happen afterward , because predictability would break down at the big bang . |
| 22 | Sometimes during the night someone from Wouldham would run down to the opposite bank and call for the Doctor . |
| 23 | If it were n't , the star would collapse down to a certain size and then stay like that . |
| 24 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 25 | Five clubs would go down from a reformed league of 14 clubs in the First Division , with the Second Division champions being promoted . |
| 26 | Things would quieten down for a little while and the huddles be reformed , but before long there was the crack of a whip and a pony and trap would dash down the field . |
| 27 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 28 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 29 | He would settle down to a contented programme of long walks , daily spells of observation in the Britches , and some leisurely reflection on work projects for his pupils next year . |
| 30 | Uneaten food , and anything once living that dies or lies in the tank will break down in a similar fashion . |