Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 2 | He 's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body . |
| 3 | ‘ It will be a long process because he is slightly paralysed down one side , ’ admitted Joan . |
| 4 | His Auntie ( Mothers sister ) lived most of her life in Harwell village , having come down this way to do domestic service . |
| 5 | Should n't 've come down this way . |
| 6 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 7 | New operands are always inserted at position one , and all operands already in the stack are moved down one position ( or " pushed " ) ; only the most recently added operand could be removed ( from position one ) and the remaining operands are moved back ( or " popped " ) . |
| 8 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 9 | A federal court has ordered that this must be done by June 1st ; voters have already turned down one plan . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ And I have never turned down any woman for a job on the grounds that she might go and get married , or have a baby , thus necessitating six months ’ paid maternity leave . ’ |
| 13 | No talk of the tittle tattle of erm the citizens charter that gets watered down one day and becomes something else the other day and you might get a free train ticket out of it some time . |
| 14 | Shorts told the press : ‘ It is notable , even if regrettable , that the Argentine forces are believed to have shot down one Harrier GR3 and two helicopters with Blowpipe . ’ |
| 15 | I take it that is a special bearing , I know she 's had people look at it , I 'm gon na try and suss out how far she 's got down that line as to having another source but I do n't think she has . |
| 16 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 17 | The Museum has no admission charge and almost closed down last year for lack of funds . |
| 18 | Before the offshore operation was officially closed down last week , Scott Lithgow had established a reputation for completing contracts on schedule . |
| 19 | At the top of the list is a European Neutron Source , a successor to the Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury that was closed down last month , which many physicists would like to seen built at the Science and Engineering Research Council 's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory . |
| 20 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 21 | THE competition to find a new dinghy to be sailed by young people aged from 11 to 15 was narrowed down this week to two boats . |
| 22 | Finally , it has slowed down scientific research into complementary practices . |
| 23 | Indeed one of the most compelling demonstrations of the elder 's power is his claim to have called down ancestral affliction upon a morally negligent member of his community . |
| 24 | You can guess what it was like , straw and everything , being trampled down all winter , sodden with with water and everything . |
| 25 | Since then , the ‘ Willowgate ’ scandal over the illegal sale of cars has brought down five cabinet ministers , one of whom committed suicide . |
| 26 | More importantly , by reforming the tax structure , the Tories have brought down marginal tax rates further still , even compared with 1979 ; for example for the average earner the marginal rate including VAT has fallen from 49 p.c. then to 45 p.c. today . |
| 27 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
| 28 | SSAP2 laid down fundamental accounting concepts which were largely incorporated as a legal requirement for the first time in the Companies Act 1981 . |
| 29 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 30 | Sainty , like many others , had scaled down this year , leaving the million dollar plus pictures at home . |