Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 2 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 3 | The first coordinate value of a pair refers to position down the page from the top , while the second coordinate is the distance across the paper from the left . |
| 4 | THE body of a 26-year-old man who was apparently buried alive while trying to rescue one of his terriers when it became trapped down a hole , has been found on a Welsh mountainside . |
| 5 | Knocker suddenly stopped mopping down the bar and looked at Yanto . |
| 6 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 7 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 8 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 9 | Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation . |
| 10 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 11 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 12 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
| 13 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 14 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 15 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 16 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 17 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 18 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 19 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 20 | Now as he comes out of the roundabout he starts overtaking down the offside of those vehicles . |
| 21 | By contrast with the Geneva and Reykjavik summits between Mr Gorbachev and the former president , Mr Ronald Reagan , which were dominated by SDI , the issue has dropped down the superpower agenda . |
| 22 | DEL Harris of Colchester , for so long in the top three of the British squash rankings , has dropped down the list because of injury and a recent loss of form . |
| 23 | He is a natural opener , and Paul Terry has dropped down the order to accommodate him . |
| 24 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 25 | I was going to say that , I mean if we do do that why do n't we move to a position when , I know it 's not finalized yet , the P As do the twenty six fives , and we try and adapt Sarah to do the whole s the whole of the four sub teams , ma maybe the threshold has to come down a bit , but but at least we 've got some sort of parity of working throughout |
| 26 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 27 | A FATHER has tracked down the love child he never saw — after 34 years . |
| 28 | CHELSEA striker Joe Allon has turned down a record £275,000 transfer to First Division Brentford . |
| 29 | Chelsea striker Joe Allon has turned down a record £275,000 transfer to First Division Brentford . |
| 30 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |