Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 2 | In both Britain and France , aspirations were greatly watered down by events . |
| 3 | They very swiftly get down to basics , ask pertinent questions , build up a rapport , and do so away from the rest of the party , away from the reporters and press cameras . |
| 4 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 5 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 6 | Monthly close down of costs will usually occur at the end of each calendar month to coincide with the similar close down of the financial accounts . |
| 7 | They avoid making enemies , and so cut down on threats to themselves in the office jungle . |
| 8 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 9 | I 'll just break down in tears on your birthday , it is n't a problem |
| 10 | I just broke down in tears when I saw the letter . |
| 11 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
| 12 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 13 | It 's not gone through the post and arrived battered , torn or creased ; and it 's not going to be just plumped down in piles on the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 15 | The gauntlet thus thrown down against ideas and assumptions so widely current in the Christianity and theology of his own day was Kierkegaard 's great contribution . |
| 16 | If so , you 'll have probably booked your place in a hall of residence , your grant will arrive on the first day of term , you 'll be ready to enjoy Freshers ' Fair and soon settle down to studies in the library . |
| 17 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 18 | He was usually available for comment and did not talk down to journalists . |
| 19 | Mr Howard , or his possible successor as Employment Secretary , could be humiliatingly voted down over plans to impose a 48-hour working week and a workless Sunday . |
| 20 | He usually bedded down on newspapers and covered himself with an old blanket which he sometimes left in the porch , ready for the next night , and sometimes took away , rolled into a long wad and tied around his stomach with string . |
| 21 | Her mind , like the women in her house , was still laid down in strata , each virtually impermeable to the others . |
| 22 | One of the few complaints which I would make is that the actor looks much too spruce for someone who is living rough in every sense of the word — forever dossing down in stations and trains and consuming endless quantities of the most vicious liquors . |
| 23 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 24 | RAPID leaf movements are usually put down to changes in turgor pressure . |
| 25 | He still comes down to walks down |
| 26 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 27 | The first of these principles is laid down in Article 5 of the EEC Treaty , which requires Member States to take all appropriate measures to ensure the effectiveness of Community law ; the second principle underlies the constitutional tradition common to the Member States and is also laid down in Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 28 | Taxes and customs duties were raised sharply , but were later scaled down after protests and because of fears of rising inflation . |
| 29 | ‘ However , the Thais have shown they are really cracking down on foreigners becoming involved in heroin . ’ |
| 30 | Do mothers with careers really look down on women who choose to be their children 's prime carer ? |