Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of East Germany 's energy-efficient industries are expected to shut down in the aftermath of the country 's reunification . |
| 2 | Conditions are expected to settle down by the middle of next week . |
| 3 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |
| 4 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 5 | Yeah , they 've been told to cut down on the spending . |
| 6 | I have n't enjoyed the last two years down there , but erm as I say , let's stick our necks out and say ‘ United are going to win down at the County ground ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm going to walk down to the hotel on the other side of the bay and see if they 've got any rooms free — ’ |
| 8 | He should be encouraged to stretch down onto the bit without losing balance or rhythm . |
| 9 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |
| 10 | Once I am happy , the men are allowed to stand down until the next patrol . |
| 11 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 12 | Ha had things been allowed to run down over the war ? |
| 13 | There was talk of building an air-raid shelter for 250,000 people under Hampden Park , and while plans were being made to dig down beneath the city , in another park , Bellahouston , work was far advanced on the tremendous Empire Exhibition and a tower that would rise 300 feet above Bellahouston Hill , 470 feet above sea-level . |
| 14 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 15 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 16 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 17 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 18 | Erm I think this whole issue is going to boil down to the your assumptions on migration . |
| 19 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |
| 20 | There 's nobody more sensible , but underneath all the sense there 's the woman , and her needs , and the feeling that she 's going to go down through the years alone . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 23 | Because some people are making large profits , and raising the total of profits by so doing , it is proposed to come down on the ‘ innocent ’ businesses , whose profits may actually have gone down , who have been being ‘ responsible ’ and not increasing their prices ; and their taxes will be put up — all because of the other bounders , who meanwhile are laughing their heads off . |
| 24 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |
| 25 | The pilot survey should be the crucial stage at which the surveyor is forced to come down from the ivory tower and communicate with the respondents . |
| 26 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 27 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 28 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 29 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 30 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |