Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | She puts her glass under Teddy 's nose for a refill , drinks her wine , and after audibly gulping down a big mouthful , she raises her glass . |
| 2 | She disappeared after mysteriously taking down her Christmas cards from her bedroom wall and going out to meet friends . |
| 3 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 4 | The car would of slowly slowed down to be at the speed that the engine |
| 5 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 6 | It takes the way things go instead of just making , yeah , instead of just sitting down and getting on with it . |
| 7 | So it 's an impact outside of just closing down the car factory , and on the question of the effects on the community . |
| 8 | Instead of just coming down |
| 9 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 10 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 11 | There are a series of formally laid down rules and procedures which medical and social service workers are expected to follow in child abuse cases . |
| 12 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 13 | Because , I suddenly , oh that was even funnier because I was I suddenly went Angie I think we 've got a leak , and it was like all on the , all in my windowsill and sort of like came down and then , luckily , she said she only realized because of what I did last year , leaving my sink on , that it goes through the floor , otherwise , none of what , we would n't have realized . |
| 14 | For some schools in San Salvador , the government 's subsequent ‘ repairs ’ consisted of simply knocking down walls which were damaged , leaving the school a mere shell . |
| 15 | the ideological problem of how to break down popular expectations regarding social provisions which became established during the postwar years of Keynesian consensus politics . |
| 16 | It is the process of actually sitting down as a family — the shared activities of discussing common goals , of settling differences amicably and of treating one another with respect and dignity — that has a healing and constructive part to play . |
| 17 | A third reason for isostatic anomalies is that there are dynamic forces present in the sub-lithospheric mantle which are capable of actively dragging down or pushing up the lithosphere . |
| 18 | He seemed to take for ever to look down at Trent . |
| 19 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 20 | This beautiful high road , which passes over two superb cols before eventually going down into Arrens and the Val d'Azun , is one of the most exalting in the Pyrenees . |
| 21 | There are numerous cloughs worth exploring in the Dark Peak , but some of the most impressive can be linked by a demanding outing starting from Greenfield on the west of Black Hill , taking in major cloughs on Bleaklow and Kinder before finally scrambling down the head of the Grindsbrook above Edale . |
| 22 | He sprawled out in his shorts and drank thirstily before fervently putting down her suggestion . |
| 23 | He could at least have waited until tomorrow to lay down the law so firmly . |
| 24 | She had revealed a core belief before even sitting down ! |
| 25 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 26 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 27 | Halidon was no great mount , a mere five hundred feet high , but it was sufficiently steep on that west side , after the slow plodding through the bog , to greatly slow down and disperse the advance . |
| 28 | My spouse told me to just calm down and breathe . |
| 29 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 30 | And I 'm out a lot , I tend to just slurp down a cup of Slimma-soup , stick a wee dollop of quiche in the microwave or something while I 'm waiting for my Carmens to heat up . |