Example sentences of "down [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet authority is passed down or delegated through the formal organisation ; it is not passed up from supervisors to senior managers . |
| 2 | And the crunch comes next month when the company has to face the possibility of closing down or selling off the whole business — although this will be a last resort and an acquisition or joint venture may be more likely . |
| 3 | There will not be the same winding down that occurred with the old rating system . |
| 4 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 5 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 6 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 7 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 8 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 9 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 10 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 11 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 12 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 13 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 14 | After a while , the bedroom door opened and they heard Mother and the visitor come down and go into the front room of the house . |
| 15 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 16 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 17 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 18 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 19 | If you go down and ask in a polite way , then you might get what you want . |
| 20 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 21 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 22 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 23 | At the same time Gwalia House was closed down and replaced by a quaint shop in the historic market town of Shrewsbury . |
| 24 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 25 | Adam put the phone down and went to the front door . |
| 26 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 27 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |
| 28 | But in the autumn they come down and settle in the grazing pastures where we take the sheep in summer . |
| 29 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a short while . |
| 30 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |