Example sentences of "[vb pp] down at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 3 | just as he wanted them , there was real oldy-worldy and the kitchen furniture was made down at Buckfastely in Devon and that was all re-claim pine |
| 4 | I 've got erm , how many hours and all this written down at home if you want me to bring that up |
| 5 | here the proceeds do not exceed the cost of the asset less the allowance claimed , an allowance equal to the shortfall will be given unless the original expenditure was pooled , in which case the balance of the pooled expenditure after deducting the disposal proceeds will continue to be written down at 25% per annum . |
| 6 | Beatty on the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in 1918 : ‘ The German flag is to be hauled down at sunset and is riot to be hoisted again without permission . ’ |
| 7 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |
| 8 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 9 | They need to be informed about the aims and content of foreign language teaching in this country , as laid down at present by exams such as GSCE and in the future by the National Curriculum . |
| 10 | To date , in certain areas of company law , minimum standards have been laid down at Community level , and apply to companies throughout the EC , irrespective of where they are incorporated or have their central administration . |
| 11 | The appeal was set down at Bristol , which is the nearest High Court centre where family business is taken but there was no High Court judge then sitting at Bristol , or indeed anywhere else on the Western Circuit . |
| 12 | I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres . |
| 13 | He made his debut a week or two after joining us and soon settled down at left-half , making the berth his own , but he was not seen at his best until Palace manager Tom Bromilow signed Les Lievesley from Torquay . |
| 14 | Cross had formerly been a lover of Cedric Morris and when the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing burnt down at Dedham , he helped Morris and his partner , Arthur Lett-Haines , move into the house named Benton End where the school was re-established . |
| 15 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 16 | ‘ He was nearly knocked down at Doncaster and finished just a neck behind Lochsong . |
| 17 | Estimated at $400,000–600,000 , bidding was brisk till it was knocked down at $2.2 million ( £1.375 million ) on the phone to New York dealer Wheelock Whitney , acting on behalf of his cousin Ted Pillsbury for the Kimbell Art Museum , underbid by Herman Shickman . |
| 18 | Floodlight pylons have had to be taken down at St George 's Park and Newlands as part of the crash building programme to have the new stands ready for next season 's Indian tour in November . |
| 19 | The last such mutiny was put down at Burford on the thirteenth of May , 1649 , by Cromwell in person . |
| 20 | I was put down at Whitcross , a crossroads on the moor , after travelling for two days in the coach . |
| 21 | Once everyone had drunk a mug of hot strong tea , he sent his own men out to feed and check the stock which was kept down at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 22 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 23 | Others have been gunned down at home in front of their children . |