Example sentences of "[vb past] down a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 2 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 3 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 4 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 5 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 6 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 7 | And I went down a few hundred yards again . |
| 8 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 9 | I jotted down a few extracts from The Boyfriends . |
| 10 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |