Example sentences of "down [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this , however , could be achieved by closing down and/or modernizing the grossly-polluting industries of eastern Germany . |
| 2 | They 'd have to hunt us down or suffer a severe loss of credibility . |
| 3 | Never run down or criticize a past employer , even if you have to refer to disagreements . |
| 4 | Go right and fall down , go left and push the crate right onto the button , go left to a wall , duck down and crawl under it , go left and fall down , go right , fall down and collect the main tape deck , go right , then up on the platforms , right , down , and collect the battery , push the crate left and go up on the lift , go left to a button , then jump two platforms to your right , and then onto the platform to your left , push the crate down onto the button and fall down , go up on the lift , then right to the next lift , go up the passage on the lift and ledge , and then go left along the top . |
| 5 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 6 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 7 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 8 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 9 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 10 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 11 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 12 | He 'd been happy here ; he 'd settled down and loved the new life he led . |
| 13 | looking down and seeing the young man again . |
| 14 | In the wake of the War of Independence , Americans were able to sit down and generate a political system from first principles . |
| 15 | It was the usual pattern of finding something to do — anything — — rather than sit down and face the empty page , except that that day the uneasiness was extra . |
| 16 | Now put the second piece of salmon cutside down and spread the remaining mixture on top , rubbing it well into the skin . |
| 17 | Milton 's top goal scorer , Nigel Mott was now settling down and causing the lanky Bob Styman problems at the back for Bishops Cleve with his probing runs down the right . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ It is not a political reality to say that we would sit down and negotiate a new treaty with 11 members without Denmark . ’ |
| 19 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 20 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 21 | Masklin looked down and saw the yellow truck roll to a halt . |
| 22 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 23 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 24 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 25 | Step down and make a delicate traverse left to move up into a recess and small ledge . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 27 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 28 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 29 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 30 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |