Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was weeping quietly , allowing the tears to run down his cheeks and drip into the dusty shadows around his feet . |
| 2 | The National Trust has already betrayed its trust , albeit accidentally , by allowing the building to burn down . |
| 3 | It is easier to keep them buried , push the feelings back down with stiffened muscles , joints and tension headaches . |
| 4 | Both the trial judge and the Court of Appeal applied the law laid down by the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division in Reg. v. Commissioner for Local Administration , Ex parte Croydon London Borough Council [ 1989 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 5 | The vehicle fulfils the conditions laid down under s 159 ICTA 1988 excepting clause 2(c) . |
| 6 | The Gaussian theory is only adequate for small strains ; at higher values of strain the assumptions made in deriving the entropy break down and the more complex Langevin expression ( 6.16a ) is needed . |
| 7 | Capable of an impressive 110 mph the little car — it 's 10 inches SHORTER than a Mini — is now quite rare as the company which made the kits shut down after only 15 were sold . |
| 8 | I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down . |
| 9 | In mangrove swamps the branches send down new roots which take hold and then support the branch as it moves ever further out . |
| 10 | She is being given the night to calm down . ’ |
| 11 | The man is still helping the police to track down the whereabouts of an undisclosed number of missing objects . |
| 12 | They expected the angels to come down and join battle with them — ‘ the sons of light ’ — against their enemies — ‘ the sons of darkness ’ — and to give them victory over all other peoples . |
| 13 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 14 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 15 | She was astonished to see the tears flowing down Beth 's face . |
| 16 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 17 | And under the bed there was a basket , and we used to see the chap come down and wash these , what was in the mass it was kippers , and conga eel . |
| 18 | John Macgill was at Edinburgh 's Dreghorn barracks to see the flags come down . |
| 19 | An associated space-camera relays the data back down to Earth . |
| 20 | Crash-cutting the best of the sight gags to a bass-heavy mix of Tone Loc 's ‘ Wild Thing ’ , editing the pedestrian plot down to is essential equation ( relaxed grown-up sorts out uptight kid note the difference to the standard Hughes formula : relaxed kids sort out uptight grown-up ) , it 's three minutes of pure cinematic bliss . |
| 21 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 22 | Another suggestion is that it was a fulfilment of a prophecy such as ‘ I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight ’ ( Amos 8:9 ) . |
| 23 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |
| 24 | it wo n't make the paper lie down flat when er when it 's finished . |
| 25 | You were unable to arouse Sir Thomas so you asked the servants to break down the door ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 27 | No , cos the water 's not coming up above your face , the water 's filled the whole going down and it 's got gates . |
| 28 | BP researchers at Sunbury have joined the hunt to track down the cause of a mysterious illness affecting elephants in Zimbabwe . |
| 29 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |
| 30 | In the first kind ( which Friedmann found ) the universe is expanding sufficiently slowly that the gravitational attraction between the different galaxies causes the expansion to slow down and eventually to stop . |