Example sentences of "down [conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A regime whose ‘ raison d'être , prestige and pride rested on its claim to defend Russia 's standing in the world ’ was singularly ill-equipped to back down or even postpone a reckoning with the Central Powers . |
| 2 | Looking for excitement and with little thought for his family , he steals a friend 's car , knocks down and badly injures a girl and is taken to court . |
| 3 | Pons sat down and hastily wrote a manuscript for a ‘ preliminary note ’ entitled ‘ Electrochemically Induced Nuclear Fusion of Deuterium ’ . |
| 4 | That was probably the most , the in , the most interesting form friendship in there , its fucking good , I went for a job in there , but I could n't I was an apprentice , as I say that , that 's what got me going really was the fact that he had to go down and actually do a design of the and he had to work on the |
| 5 | Having a vehicle break down and then struggling a mile down that pot-holed strip of mud you call a road is n't my idea of fun , I can tell you ! ’ |
| 6 | All she wanted was to sit down and maybe read a book . |