Example sentences of "[vb pp] down and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thornton was eventually smoothed down and persuaded to stay on condition that the paper find a Chairman at once — a reputable businessman whose name could be used instead of his . |
| 2 | See , he 's fallen down and broken his crown . |
| 3 | Dana could put on a good show ; no one would know she had broken down and confessed her need for Roman 's strength . |
| 4 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 5 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 6 | As the sea cuts into the land , the cliff collapses and the collapsed material is broken down and transported away , there results the slow development of a wavecut platform . |
| 7 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 8 | But there were some good memories , particularly of one Polish vessel after we had rescued their lifeboat , broken down and drifting in adverse weather in the outer reaches of the lock with the mate and several crewmen on board . |
| 9 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 10 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 11 | Strength and mobility of joints improves , and because the muscles need more energy , stored body fat is broken down and utilised , leading to a reduction in weight . |
| 12 | Usually the cargo is broken down and sold off , then the ship reappears with false papers reregistered under a Honduran or Panamanian flag of convenience . |
| 13 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |
| 14 | The houses next to the river had no owners ; they were broken down and ruined , but could be defended against attack . |
| 15 | The autumn colours come when the green pigment chlorophyll is broken down and re-absorbed into the tree . |
| 16 | This can sometimes be felt in the feet as fine crystals , which , when massaged in the correct manner , can gradually be broken down and washed away in the bloodstream as circulation improves . |
| 17 | The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely . |
| 18 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 19 | Most procaryotes , using oxygen , depend on the simpler process of fermentation for their energy , where chemical food is broken down and burned inside the cell . |
| 20 | They should last a long time , and can be stripped down and boiled to clean them . |
| 21 | Their characters , like those of Jonson 's comedies , are grotesquely stripped down and caricatured . |
| 22 | The coffin had been fastened down and lay on trestles , honey-coloured in the slanting light , awaiting its removal . |
| 23 | He was patted down and given a cup of tea and a sausage roll to bolster him up while the children were gathered and the room darkened in anticipation . |
| 24 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 25 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 26 | When I looked out of the window and saw you creeping through the garden , I thought I 'd better come down and find out what you were up to . ’ |
| 27 | Then why not come down and have a day 's shooting next Saturday , ’ Fraser suggested . |
| 28 | Bob could remember his own loneliness and isolation when he had first come down and started work on the paper . |
| 29 | Not a lot really , he 's come down and hacked through a couple of tunes with us . |
| 30 | They 've come down and give the lads tell the lads off . |