Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you . |
| 2 | ‘ But since we 're both going to have to stay under this roof for a couple of days , perhaps even longer , maybe we 'd better lay down some ground rules so that we can at least avoid open warfare . ’ |
| 3 | The company does not break down divisional figures , but m.d . |
| 4 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 5 | And er you can just walk down either side of it . |
| 6 | Erm , we started off with was that , erm , we would just write down any word that came up to our head , in terms of relating it to the story i.e. we thought about memories , and memories Erm , this is gon na match up with your is n't it . |
| 7 | They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other . |
| 8 | The directive would also lay down minimum requirements for the conduct of takeovers , effectively superseding the City of London 's Takeover Panel . |
| 9 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 10 | We could also write down other things about what we have noticed which would be better expressed in words than in paint . |
| 11 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | I know it 's difficult , I know the City is highly congested and we ca n't plough down beautiful buildings in order to make better roads and so on , and that is n't what we want to do . |
| 13 | Why ‘ psychic detective ’ Nella wo n't track down vanished peer |
| 14 | You ca n't see down that part of the cloister leading off from the chapel into the convent . |
| 15 | You very often can not even lay down any principle upon which you can give damages … |
| 16 | It does n't lay down rigid guidelines to be followed , it just suggests erm penalties for average offences committed by first offenders of average means , and it provides a starting point for magistrates to think about . |
| 17 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 18 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid I ca n't come down this Christmas as I 've arranged to have Christmas dinner with a friend . |
| 20 | And , after all , Rob was safe ; he did n't pull down any stars for her , he was simply pleasant company not to be taken too seriously . |
| 21 | That woman canes the girls , and the man birches the boys , and sometimes they ca n't sit down all day . |
| 22 | Downing Street could n't turn down this gift horse for fear of offending the President but at the same time , they had nowhere for him to go so since March , Maxat , a champion racehorse , was stuck in these Turkmen stables waiting impatiently , getting flabby and fractious . |
| 23 | So we can actually lay down certain guidelines , rather like stratified samples , telling the interviewers that so many interviews should be with men and so many with women , so many in certain age-groups and perhaps so many in certain pre-determined socio-economic groups . |
| 24 | Well tt during , during our discussions I 'll be taking notes on your current financial situation but also why erm your thoughts for the future and erm and in doing this I 'll be using this form to actually assist me to actually take down these notes . |
| 25 | ‘ Forasmuch as the exercise of archery is lawful , laudable , healthful , and innocent and to that end that God 's holy name may not be dishonoured by any of that society , it is agreed … that if any one of them shall that day curse or swear , in the hearing of any of the company … he shall forthwith pay down one shilling … to be distributed by the Captain , to the use of the poor of that place , or township where they shoot . ’ |