Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |
| 2 | The predisposing factors identified ( Eastman , 1984 , Hickey , 1981 ) include severe physical and mental infirmity which wears down the carer , poor communication , lack of respite care , lack of praise from the dependent person . |
| 3 | Therefore , in the test runs described in the next chapter we cut down the utterance length to no more than 10 words . |
| 4 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 5 | Now it is open and defenceless against the machetes which slash down the undergrowth for tinder. — when the tinder is dry the fires can be lit to burn off the remaining forest to make way for agriculture or ranching ( in many areas this ‘ slash and burn ’ forest clearance happens without first even removing the usable hardwood ) . |
| 6 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 7 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 8 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 9 | This is just one version out of the score of recipes for this venerable dish which is not a grill at all and which you will scarcely find nowadays simmering away in the galleys of the great petrol barges which whirl down the Rhone to Marseille . |
| 10 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 11 | One for the little boy who lives down the avenue ( lane ) . |
| 12 | I said I told you if you want chips you go down the chip shop . |
| 13 | It was not clear if Mrs Shephard herself turned down the requests . |
| 14 | So extracting his fireman they went down the yard and got onto 4913 . |
| 15 | ‘ In your lunch hour you head down the King 's Road from Sloane Square . |
| 16 | From this it is deduced that one who is seised must have an estate , and unless he claims through some gift which cuts down the estate then it will be a fee simple … |
| 17 | The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable . |
| 18 | At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , work by Janet Hemingway on anopheline mosquitoes has shown that malathion specific resistance is inherited as a single gene controlling a carboxylesterase enzyme which breaks down the malathion to its monoacid . |
| 19 | This is done either by an enzyme which breaks down the neurotransmitter or , more commonly , the neurotransmitter can be transported back into the presynaptic area . |
| 20 | Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods . |
| 21 | Civilisation , which is wholly controlled by man himself , should never have been allowed to develop without the unquestioning acceptance of the inexorable power of the evolutionary process itself to lay down the basic pattern of human behaviour . |
| 22 | As Polly took his place he started down the companionway . |
| 23 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 24 | as in this case we go down the three column , the three is a in the numerator N one , right , till we reach seventeen , right , and now test to see if it 's three point two right , so if we |
| 25 | For the second time that day I scrambled down the slope of the hill towards the sad little car . |
| 26 | Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they 'll knock it all over books . |
| 27 | But it is not only recession fears which drive down the pound . |
| 28 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 29 | And part of it is discipline — you know , making your room up and one day you clean the porch , one day you sweep down the kitchen … you have different duties every day . |
| 30 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |