Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 2 | I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom . |
| 3 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 4 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 5 | Near the village of Higaturu , the mangled remains of a vehicle were found hanging upside down in a tree . |
| 6 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 7 | In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light . |
| 8 | The body of the third man lies chest down in the mud , head to one side . |
| 9 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 10 | Place upside down in a dish and pour over the butter , sprinkle with salt and add a tablespoon of vermouth . |
| 11 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 12 | Mayor has job down to a ‘ tea ’ |
| 13 | It bucked and screamed , then charged head down into the blackness of the space between the high walls . |
| 14 | When pan is very hot , press lamb down with a fish slice for five minutes on each side or until golden outside and pink inside . |
| 15 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 16 | Russell said , " Before you leave , put money down for a mescal . " |
| 17 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 18 | Ronan Rafferty : " I let Christy down on the greens . |
| 19 | The bodies of the leaders were taken to Milan where they were hung upside down from a girder in front of a petrol station in Piazza Loreto . |
| 20 | When feminism becomes respectable — and if the world has n't been turned upside down as a consequence — the significance of our achievements needs to be examined carefully . |
| 21 | Turned upside down on the floor , it became my boat , my cart , a railway engine — it 's amazing what a child can make of a simple object in imagination . |
| 22 | Detectives say they have no idea what was stolen because the million-pound villa in a suburb of Rome was turned upside down in the Boxing Day burglary . |
| 23 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 24 | For Emeruwa , life has been turned upside down after an ankle injury in a sevens match in 1984 . |
| 25 | The whole package , doctrinal decrees and disciplinary reforms , has shaped Catholicism down to the present . |
| 26 | Haddad said that the aim would be selective growth with the co-operation of business and labour ; the government would be pleased , he said , if it could bring inflation down to an annualized rate of 60 per cent . |
| 27 | If the locational data are available in x , y order then , if you are familiar with BASIC or FORTRAN , or some other high-level language , it is relatively easy to write a program to reverse the order of the x , y pairs and to convert the y coordinate so that it measures distance down from the top of the page rather than distance up from the bottom . |
| 28 | I have a headache and am concerned that the wind has dehydrated me ; it is so important to pour liquid down in the Arctic , especially in winter . |
| 29 | ‘ If we do not send legislation down to the dioceses , it is almost analogous to a judge who fails to include a point of law in a summing up to the jury . ’ |
| 30 | It allows a relatively modern driving position with straighter arms than the slightly foreshortened and big-wheeled Healey , but the stubby gear lever and handbrake lever down on the central tunnel are very similar car to car . |