Example sentences of "down and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 2 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 3 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 4 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 5 | They issued in , among many other reforms , the Education Act of 1918 , introduced by Lloyd George 's Minister of Education , H. A. L. Fisher ( who was knocked down and killed in the black-out in April 1940 ) . |
| 6 | A boy knocked down and killed by a car near Denton Burn , Newcastle , was named yesterday as Jonathon Kelly , 12 , of Southview , West Denton . |
| 7 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 8 | With 92 other offences taken into consideration , including arson , blackmail , three sendings-off and a professional foul , Proby was sent down and dismissed by the club . |
| 9 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 10 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |
| 11 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 12 | Dot kept still and quiet , head down and hunched like a bird sleeping , hoping Gloria would n't know she was in there . |
| 13 | Jason looked down and fiddled with a pencil on his desk . |
| 14 | The fine tree was soon noticed by the king of Byblos , who ordered it to be cut down and made into a column to support the hall roof of his palace . |
| 15 | He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet , pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd be irradiated if he 'd turned the bribe down and gone to the freight car . ’ |
| 17 | The carts had been washed down and polished for the day 's event . |
| 18 | She rose from her chair at the little antique bureau which stood in the attic window space , bent down and fumbled for the catch of the secret drawer which she had found there . |
| 19 | He was knocked down and injured by a horse when the rider lost control while riding too fast . |
| 20 | Lissa 's mouth shaped her distaste , and she put her cup down and realised with a start that Adam was saying something . |
| 21 | If these trailing stems are held down and secured in the planting medium , they root , and then the sections bearing the plantlets can be severed and transplanted . |
| 22 | The answer , I think , involves a partial refutation of the interactionist position : crimes do share an intrinsic quality — they involve the knowing transgression of rules laid down and enforced by the state . |
| 23 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 24 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 25 | Not a lot really , he 's come down and hacked through a couple of tunes with us . |
| 26 | Too many students imagine that all they need do is to note down and read over the contents of lectures , and then to have a quick revision before the examination . |
| 27 | The autumn colours come when the green pigment chlorophyll is broken down and re-absorbed into the tree . |
| 28 | Be sure to provide a comfortable bed , which can be a cardboard box with its sides cut down and lined with a blanket . |
| 29 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 30 | It was agreed that Cell-y-bedd should be taken down and rebuilt in the form of an apse on the foundations found in 1958 . |