Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 2 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 3 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 4 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 5 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 6 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 7 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 8 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 9 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 10 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 11 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 12 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 13 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 14 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 15 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 16 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 17 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 18 | She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system . |
| 19 | Being let down an Italian well , by a crowd of villagers . |
| 20 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 21 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 22 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 23 | Peter usually wore the number 11 shirt but frequently operated down the right flank . |
| 24 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 25 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 26 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 27 | Former West Indies captain Viv Richards has turned down a lucrative offer to play Currie Cup cricket for South Africa 's Western Province . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the world 's top players have turned down a tempting financial offer aimed at attracting them away from the Ulster Milk Games match between Europe and Asia in Belfast on June 8 . |
| 29 | That day in 1958 the Northern Echo also reported that municipal busmen had turned down an extra five bob a week on their £8 15s , that Cliff Jones Britain 's most expensive footballer at £35,000 had broken a leg and carried a front page headline about the Royal family . |
| 30 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |