Example sentences of "[verb] down on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for a moment did his eyes sweep around the mountain heights which everywhere peered down on this upturned basin of ancient civilisation . |
| 2 | Denis just could n't fall down on this job ; he 'd have to get the money somehow . |
| 3 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 4 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 5 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 6 | The police are only now beginning to crack down on this type of smuggling . |
| 7 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 8 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 9 | You can look down on this very attractively from Biarritz 's nicest small square , the Place de l'Atalaya , reachable from below up paths dense with the wispy tamarisks of which the town is so fond . |
| 10 | ‘ O Jesus , who made the blind see and the lame to walk , look down on this woman ! ’ |
| 11 | Got the old watering can and then you get down on this plant , and then when they get a gist of that first time that they go whooo , you wake up in the morning , you 've got co , conifers like Jack and The Beanstalk coming |
| 12 | Put yourself in the position of a financial adviser , for the couple that you see , these are all theoretical couples obviously , theoretical individuals , and just jot down on this the sort t . |
| 13 | Storming up and down the place saying just give me one last script , you ca n't cut me dead and ca n't you give me something and I 'll cut down on this last one and all this . |
| 14 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 15 | And finally can I reemphasise that we have not come to any conclusion as to which road we shall go down on this one . |
| 16 | Diversion will be in operation from Monday at a new roundabout being built on Stainton Way , Coulby Newham , near Dixons Bank , and drivers are asked to slow down on this fast stretch of road and to take care . |
| 17 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 18 | Research Association been put down on this |