Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [vb -s] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 2 | So the constraint boils down to : we can perceive only that which we usually perceive . |
| 3 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 4 | So the choice comes down to twist or braid , and the synthetic material from which it is made . |
| 5 | So the pile goes down . |
| 6 | Four plus three , as the number you add on goes down so the answer goes down . |
| 7 | So the membrane thins down , the solvent collects rounds the around the outside and er you 're left with a pure bilayer of phospholipid . |
| 8 | So a doctor writes down his patient 's symptoms , an architect writes down his client 's requirements , Hansard records the proceedings of the British Parliament , we write down friends ' addresses , telephone numbers , recipes , knitting patterns , and so on . |
| 9 | Gradually the mortgage comes down and the savings goes up , but there 's still a gap . |
| 10 | This might sound like irresponsibility , but , given how the performance pans out , you could also read it as professional commitment ; the longer the show goes on , the more the drink goes down and , in a remarkable contradiction of physics , the tighter the playing becomes . |
| 11 | The roots become smaller the further the ferret progresses down the hole away from the tree itself . |
| 12 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 13 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 14 | Oh , and he wants to see you directly the curtain comes down . ’ |
| 15 | Wind the bobbin with 24-turns of 18s.w.g. enamelled wire , keeping it neatly in layers ( there are about 1½ layers involved ) and bring out the wire ends down through the bobbin slots in the positions shown in Fig. 8 . |
| 16 | The one night Dan 's says he 's gon na ring here the phone breaks down ! |
| 17 | Even the governor comes down to hobnob with me in the cells . " |
| 18 | Sometimes the court lays down a prima facie assumption applicable to a certain kind of provision ( eg the rule that time is not of the essence of a rent review timetable ) . |
| 19 | These curve back up northwards towards the Kamchatka peninsula of the U.S.S.R. , an intensely active volcanic province , and then the chain sweeps down southwards , heading for Japan . |
| 20 | And then the temperature drops down rapidly again . |
| 21 | Table 2 shows for Lothian how the target breaks down by age group and what progress has been made to date . |
| 22 | Sometimes a car slows down and the inhabitants wave and shout what they believe to be a significant phrase . |
| 23 | As the resistance gets higher and higher the current goes down . |
| 24 | the freedom to communicate his thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man ; every citizen is therefore free to speak , to write and to print , except in cases where the law lays down that he is liable to prosecution for abuse of that liberty . |
| 25 | No it could n't be cos that 's the gulf where the sun goes down . |
| 26 | The second goal of fault-finding is also critical since it is where the fault-finder narrows down the area of search to , hopefully , one computer-controlled subsystem . |
| 27 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 29 | Happily these days , when the system falls down , hari-kari is far more likely to be symbolic , in the form of bankruptcy , reorganisation , or composition , than physical . |
| 30 | Lakes that owe their volume to a balance between inflowing and outflowing water may change radically between seasons , almost draining in winter when the inflow slows down , and overflowing when summer melt brings in water that can not escape through still-frozen outlets . |