Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 2 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 3 | Written excavation records once consisted of observations written down in a notebook , but nowadays most archaeologists use printed forms , or even a series of forms , which are filled in to record the evidence not covered by the drawn and photographic records . |
| 4 | Phonic refers to 'sounding out' : the relationship between letters or groups of letters written down , and how one says them when reading aloud . |
| 5 | Images of women thrown down , kicked and beaten , men held and knocked senseless by Blackshirt stewards , filled the press in the days and weeks that followed . |
| 6 | It includes aggregate estimates of government spending and revenue while also providing target figures for expenditures broken down into functional categories . |
| 7 | There is a comfortable sitting room , with beams and an inglenook fireplace with bricks worn down by centuries of knife sharpening . |
| 8 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 9 | By concentrating on pebbles carried down from alpine sources in the beds of rivers and streams , full advantage could be taken of the erosive power of water in wearing away adhering rock and concentrating the sought after greenstone . |
| 10 | When Vietnam and Watergate were over things simmered down in society and the urgency sort of fell out of film making ; the directors did n't quite know where they were , they had no targets . |