Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 2 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 3 | I braked too late at the second corner and changed down to third while turning the wheel , feeding it through my hands . |
| 4 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 5 | And in fact they 've gone one place down the table , they 've moved down to eighteenth with West Brom having a good win away at Blackburn . |
| 6 | They owed much to their New Zealand coach , Murray Kidd , for a 20–9 victory which put them a point ahead of the rest , Shannon being thrust down to second place . |
| 7 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |
| 8 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 9 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 10 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |
| 11 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 12 | And the Beaubourg gallery has recent assemblages by the French sculptor César until 7 November : cut-out , compressed , superimposed statues of Communist leaders brought down by last summer 's events in Moscow and entitled ‘ Ave Lenin ’ . |
| 13 | THE cost of borrowing is coming down at last . |
| 14 | The NERC 's chairman , John Knill , warned that its research programme would have to be scaled down from next year , unless fresh government funds were forthcoming . |
| 15 | Ireland 's Conor Henry , last year 's overall winner , went down in sixth place overall and looks likely to have to settle for a placing . |
| 16 | Also expected to score league points which go down to tenth place , are Pat Hutton and Stuart Smith ( both Penicuik RT ) and the promoting club 's fast junior , Lachie Badenoch . |
| 17 | And just to remind you that Oxford have gone down to eighteenth in the table , they 've got thirty two points . |
| 18 | Scarborough badly need to pick up points after slumping down to 17th place after suffering a run of just one League win in nine games . |
| 19 | Mansell slips down to third |
| 20 | It has done just 3000 miles and the gearbox is very stiff when changing up from second to third gear , but not when changing down from fourth to third , Do you think it will loosen up in time ? |
| 21 | Ma and Luke are relieved to see that I 'm settling down at last . |
| 22 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 23 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |
| 24 | Foot to step down at next election |
| 25 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |