Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 2 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 3 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 6 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 9 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 10 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 11 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 12 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
| 13 | Two days later the sea had settled down after the prolonged gale and we headed north once more through the rock strewn channels and islands . |
| 14 | One diver on a previous expedition to the Arctic got bent after chasing an elusive jellyfish down past a safe limit and having his regulator freeze up . |
| 15 | The above indicates that there is far more to negotiating than sitting down opposite the other party and trying to bargain . |
| 16 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 17 | Pressures towards manpower production meant in effect , that demands from higher levels of the education system fed down towards the primary curriculum and there was a certain rather questionable pyramid philosophy built on the premise that ‘ many are called but few are chosen ’ . |
| 18 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 19 | At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled onto her back on the grass feeling exhausted . |
| 20 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 21 | But the best he could do was it down behind a large rock and escape from the grasp of the wind , though the rain still got to him and he started to shiver violently . |
| 22 | We looked back and up , and for a moment the Towers ' summits were flecked with gold , before the sun slid down behind the unseen horizon and all Chile was plunged into blackness . |
| 23 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 24 | Stung by his cool sarcasm , suddenly acutely embarrassed by her spurned show of emotion , she put her coffee-cup down with a sharp click and started gathering her bags , preparing to leave . |
| 25 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 26 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 27 | On the third day out , Rachel went down with a high temperature and swellings in the groin . |
| 28 | He poured himself another , swilled it down with a grim smile and cradled the empty wineglass in his hands . |
| 29 | She had said there was less chance of being burdened down with a large brood and less risk of losing the husband to another woman . |
| 30 | That was a case , I worked in a hotel for years and years and it closed down with the new bypass and that , and just a girl beside me , she was coming for an interview , to the B M K and I came with her . |