Example sentences of "not [vb infin] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 2 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 3 | A star with a mass more than about twice that of the sun can not settle down as a white dwarf or neutron star . |
| 4 | There is a fire-tinge of violence to it here in New York , as there is to everything in this city , which just wo n't slow down like the other city did and get more innocent and less crazy and less dirty-colourful . |
| 5 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 6 | These flows were relatively small and they did n't get down to the lower , inhabited parts of the mountain . |