Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not throw down the gauntlet ! |
| 2 | This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church . |
| 3 | The method of preparing the blank before inserting the cutlery blank is simply to drill and clean out the hole in the shaft before fixing , put the Special T on the tang and insert with the handle on top so the Special T does not run down the wood . |
| 4 | Make sure that the ventilation pipe is unobstructed , and that water can not run down the pipe into the house . |
| 5 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 6 | And said , oh , let's go and find a cup of coffee but , have a bit of a walk and walk down to conference but we 'll not walk down the prom |
| 7 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 8 | On Europe , to put it beyond all doubt in this House , in the country , and on the continent , will my right hon. Friend reaffirm that it is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government that Britain shall not go down the route of a federal Europe and that it is for Britain to decide on the future of her own currency ? |
| 9 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 10 | The women may close down the village boozer , but they will not shut down the business altogether . |
| 11 | If we offer this kind of text to children , and if the gulf between the two languages is to be bridged , then we must not play down the magnitude of the learning task which children face . |
| 12 | Despite allaying concerns felt by some teachers , the adviser did not play down the accountability purpose to the exercise , nor was the self-appraisal presented as much more than providing factual information and describing their policy and practice . |
| 13 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 14 | Hilda did not turn down the gas . |
| 15 | Council leader Michael Carr said : ‘ We can not turn down the opportunity of extra resources for areas of particular need . |
| 16 | The mother will protect it from predators , such as eagles , and will try to ensure that it does n't fall down the mountainside by always standing on the downhill side of it . |
| 17 | Do n't bring down the box just bring something , one thing . |
| 18 | Firing blanks LEE CHAPMAN and his Leeds team-mates could n't break down the Stuttgart defence as they began their European campaign in Germany last night |
| 19 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 20 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 21 | Er they do n't move us on or they do n't move me on in my thinking , and they do n't lay down the charge , cos they 're predictable and and they 're using . |
| 22 | We do have to take a leaf , a little bit out of Kenzie 's book from the n the late nineteen thirties and afterwards , that when things are receding , you do n't batten down the hatches , you do n't simply close things in . |
| 23 | Called Do n't Go Down the Mine it was written in 1910 by William Geddes and Robert Donnelly . |
| 24 | Later , comedians adapted the words to ‘ Do n't go down the mine , Daddy , there 's plenty coal in the cellar ’ . |
| 25 | My parents went absolutely nuts because all my family are coal miners — my grandfathers , my uncles — and the idea was that if you got a chance you did n't go down the pit , but I wanted to . |
| 26 | I think that was half the reason why I did n't go down the doctors . |
| 27 | Do n't go down the mine |
| 28 | Well I ca n't go down the square that 'll be too much , but I mean |
| 29 | She wo n't go down the shop with you . |
| 30 | We wo n't go down the village with her either ! |