Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 2 | After being shot down during the Battle of Britain , Stienhilper became a PoW and after a short period in a British camp was transferred to Canada . |
| 3 | I do n't know how many breweries or pubs were knocked down during the redevelopment of Docklands . |
| 4 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 5 | In the wide centre space , where one box alone stood along one wall , there was a comfortable chair for the redoubtable Ms Brown , along with a table , equipment lockers , a refrigerator and a heavy plastic water tank with a tap low down for the filling of buckets . |
| 6 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 7 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 8 | You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself . |
| 9 | It follows that the conditions laid down for the registration of vessels must not form an obstacle to freedom of establishment within the meaning of articles 52 et seq . |
| 10 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 11 | John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road . |
| 12 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 13 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 14 | The union 's promise that no Irish team will be allowed to go to South Africa ‘ whilst the remainder of the apartheid laws exist ’ has not convinced many people , while drawing the wrath of their recent hosts down about the heads of Dawson and his fellow-travellers . |
| 15 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 16 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |
| 17 | As the number of species studied increases the simple classification into adaptive grades begins to break down as the variance within species and between species begins to exceed that between the categories described as grades . |
| 18 | IF I tell you that this is the perfect time to go out and buy a record deck , you will no doubt put me down as the sort of person who invested heavily in Betamax video , eight-track tape and the Sinclair C5 : a sucker for doomed formats . |
| 19 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 20 | They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world . |
| 21 | Of course , Therese would look ridiculous in the part — nothing they could do about that , a boy 's costume was a boy 's costume — but the voice , that electrifying voice rippling up and down through the registers without effort . |
| 22 | There , it percolates down through the rocks into aquifers ( underground water reserves ) , or flows as surface rivers back into the sea , propelled by the Earth 's gravity . |
| 23 | In the patchy moonlight filtering down through the latticework of branches above , he could see no lurking figures . |
| 24 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 25 | Plenty of small ones just float down through the atmosphere like dust — which , at a tenth of a millimetre across , is pretty much what they are . |
| 26 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 27 | From the crisis over Nato modernisation in March to the casting down of the Wall in November stretch an astonishing nine months in which Germans on both sides have reached out with increasing boldness to take their destiny into their own hands . |
| 28 | It was a slowing down of the spread of forest decline in the late 1980s that first pointed the CEGB scientists towards climate as the cause . |
| 29 | It was the writing down of the poems of Homer and Hesiod that led scholars to ask , for the first time apparently : ‘ How far was the information about their gods and heroes literally true ? ’ . |
| 30 | Differentiation , or specialization , involves not only the breaking down of the organization into functions , but also the formation of groups to support the tasks assigned to those functions . |