Example sentences of "[noun pl] down [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United had three defenders down with injury including keeper Alan Judge . |
| 2 | The geese arrived with a bow wave that surged over the nomes ' feet , and arched their necks down towards Shrub . |
| 3 | The seven leaders , who also included Banana rider Ben Luckwell , were five minutes clear of the main field and Kovar , who had started the day in 17th place 3mins 8secs down on Lillywhite , looked set to turn the race upside down . |
| 4 | Roger has also dismissed the use of ‘ contracts ’ : ‘ as if you can hope to put relationships down on paper ’ . |
| 5 | Going to work for a young musician may mean days spent rehearsing — getting songs down on tape , producing a demo on a front-room recording unit , or playing at a pub gig . |
| 6 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 7 | Production up and losses down after QA project |
| 8 | A good fight back for Witney today in the southern division of the Beezer Homes League ; they were two goals down at home to Yate Town , but the match finished Witney two , Yate Town two , our reporter , Adrian Burcher . |
| 9 | For orders over £45 ( excluding p&p ) , we are giving away FREE of charge a 20cm/8in Chinese carbon steel chopper for cutting your ingredients down to size , worth over £5 . |
| 10 | Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ? |
| 11 | You melt the bones down into stock . |
| 12 | But Chris Powell and Adam Locke could do little to bring John King 's flight-to-the-moon Rovers down to earth . |
| 13 | Some girl 's going out with a boy , he zipped her tent up over them and she was so shocked she pulled her trousers down by accident . |
| 14 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 15 | THUMBS DOWN FOR UNIX , NT IN FROM NOWHERE IN COMDEX POLL |
| 16 | Although he is a thoughtful person , who loves to put his ideas down on paper in the form of articles for such august publications as the Harvard Business Review , he suspects that labels are attached to management practices in hindsight rather than as objectives executives set out to master . |
| 17 | The pepper pot analogy kept coming back to Raymond Cusick as he began sketching his ideas down onto paper . |
| 18 | Paraguay cracks down on animal trade |
| 19 | Panama cracks down on opposition |
| 20 | Thailand cracks down on wildlife trade |
| 21 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 22 | For some people it can be enormously helpful just to write things down on paper . |
| 23 | Not just the basic elements but let's put one or two things down on paper for yourselves . |
| 24 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm a believer in getting things down in black and white . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he did say he 'd try to cool things down in advance of the meeting , ’ said Pooley . |
| 27 | I took my dreams down to breakfast : I 'd scribble while eating , like an Inspector from the Good Bed-and-Breakfast Guide . |
| 28 | I like , before coming to a decision , to get the arguments down on paper and it seems to me if you ca n't then convince yourself or anybody else that what you propose is logically right , it does n't much matter what your gut 's doing . |
| 29 | We did n't have much time for subtle distinctions down in East Oxford . |
| 30 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |