Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 2 | This simple but effective method of steam generation eliminates the need for a boiler so helping to cut down the incidence of scaling while also reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent . |
| 3 | It was a tiny cell , so we had to take it in turns to sit down . |
| 4 | Knocker suddenly stopped mopping down the bar and looked at Yanto . |
| 5 | It 's natural that Yuri should so enjoy dressing down , when for some much of his life he has been zipped into elaborate Bolshoi costumes , his cheekbones and eyes accented by thick , expertly applied theatrical make-up . |
| 6 | ‘ There were misunderstandings , but all has settled down . ’ |
| 7 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 8 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 9 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 10 | This situation would only begin to break down when Lyell introduced his uniformitarian geology in the 1830s . |
| 11 | I greatly enjoy sitting down on a Thursday evening to compile a list of all the pleasant and even unpleasant things I have to do , and then luxuriate in my sense of achievement on the following Sunday evening when every item on the list is ticked off . |
| 12 | Tuesday comes and I 'm all set to head down when diaster strikes ( stupid computers they never do what you tell them to ) and the trip is cancelled . |
| 13 | It is the schools , and their teachers , who have had to shoulder this burden , increasingly so in a climate where opportunities are diminished and our pupils rightly feel let down , frustrated and alienated from a society that appears insensitive to their plight . |
| 14 | ‘ The really frightening part was when you got to the top and suddenly started going down . |
| 15 | For starters , we only decided to break down the barriers and go for overseas imports last year because we needed an out-and-out fast bowler to make any impact on the championship . |
| 16 | Reference should also be made to the Specific Claims Handling Instructions , especially to calculate written down value . |
| 17 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 18 | Definitely , yes , and you , you and Dave could have come up and er Carla , perhaps not Lee , but , you know , he may have wanted to go off somewhere else , erm , we could all have bunked down on what spare space there was and I was going to do a very primitive almost medieval , middle ages sort of Christmas |
| 19 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 20 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 21 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 22 | and kinda wanted to go down early . |
| 23 | If not they would have been abandoned and merely allowed to fall down . |
| 24 | Many humbler folk , with fascinating ideas and personal stories to tell if they only dared to sit down and write them out , will be grateful for its tireless and patient tuition . |
| 25 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 26 | One of the Many on the Move ( Merlin Books , 94pp , illus , sbk , £5.95 ) by Jim Burtt-Smith , is the Author 's recollections of his childhood experiences , including witnessing the Victory Parade of World War One , joining the RAF and flying Wellingtons on operations , only to get shot down and ditch in the sea , spending the rest of the war as a PoW . |
| 27 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 28 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 29 | When the balance sheet was finally totted up after the war , it was estimated that 1O , OOO Frenchmen alone had laid down their lives on this one small corner of France . |
| 30 | These associated activities , together with the relative accessibility of this type of abstract work , can only help to break down some of the problems which non-figurative art poses for many spectators . |