Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 2 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 3 | Cross had formerly been a lover of Cedric Morris and when the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing burnt down at Dedham , he helped Morris and his partner , Arthur Lett-Haines , move into the house named Benton End where the school was re-established . |
| 4 | And Andy written down the back if you want to scratch it . |
| 5 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 6 | Erm in terms of Community budget so this Environment Committee and Conservatives gone down to below sort of seventy two million so we are not actually getting any sort of . |
| 7 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |
| 8 | One such file might hold demographic attributes for the individual counties of a given state ; these attributes would include total population and population broken down by age and sex while a second attribute file would store the mortality ( death ) and morbidity ( sickness ) rates for the same counties . |
| 9 | These off-road vans are equipped as ‘ garages on wheels ’ to reach and repair broken down vehicles , enabling anti-poaching patrols to stay mobile . |
| 10 | His head was shaved , and he had diagonal lines of green and red painted down his face . |
| 11 | But on the other hand , we were only working to rule , we were working by rules and regulations laid down from various Acts and negotiated er agreements . |
| 12 | There were four calls , and flowers thrown down from the boxes ; , then the cast had gone . |
| 13 | Beneath the chandeliers only the Louis XVI table , the Queen in zinc ( for patriotic reasons ) , a few objects in electro-metal such as Fame Scattering Petals on Shakespeare 's Tomb , with the heads of certain men of letters , and a few stuffed birds in the rubble of plaster and brickwork brought down by the sepoy cannons , remained . |
| 14 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he answered , bewildered , and was even more surprised when Therese called down from the stage , ‘ Coming for coffee , Madge ? |