Example sentences of "[verb] down [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now come on sit down Dawn for Christ sake . |
| 2 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 3 | But their aim was as errant as his own , and the hail of bullets ricocheted off the top half of the door to whine viciously into the ceiling of the room , bringing down chunks of plaster in a choking dust cloud . |
| 4 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 5 | Modern deposits are not , it seems , laid down layer upon layer over a wide area . |
| 6 | Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord . |
| 7 | The declaration also laid down guidelines on peace and disarmament issues , development , the environmental challenge , the realization of full political and economic democracy , culture and society , and the role of women and men in society . |
| 8 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
| 9 | The Government are committed , when possible , to continue to drive down burdens on industry and rates of tax . |
| 10 | Purely on the strength of a chance remark by my retailer , who thought the symptoms could have been caused by metal toxicity , the tank was stripped down piece by piece . |
| 11 | A SAFETY training campaign has been very successful in driving down accidents at Taubmans ' coatings plants in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 12 | RNAS non-rigid airships , able to stay aloft for many hours and send down reports by wireless , did important work on patrol and convoy escort , many times directing British destroyers into contact with the enemy 's U-boats . |
| 13 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 14 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 15 | However , it is in keeping down imports of oil that major problems for the National Energy Program ( NEP ) exist . |
| 16 | Nigel Lawson , it seemed , was neither holding the pound steady abroad nor keeping down prices at home . |
| 17 | the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client . |
| 18 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 19 | A little later , he 'd looked down avenues of faces , hoping it might be Helen . |
| 20 | He would not listen to her instructions and caused a lot of damage by climbing on furniture and shelves , banging things with his toys , knocking down displays in shops , and so on . |
| 21 | THE LEADERSHIP of the Scottish Labour Party yesterday played down talk of division between moderates and a group led by Mr George Galloway who founded Scotland United — a loose grouping of MPs , trades unionists and other prominent personalities — committed to home rule . |
| 22 | The children do not make a direct transition from structured signs into English written grammar ; in fact , they rely on structures in ASL they already know , and this forms the basis of their task solution of writing down English from sign users . |
| 23 | Newco can claim writing down allowances for plant and machinery of 25% on a reducing balance basis over whatever number of years reduces the expenditure to a negligible amount . |
| 24 | Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery . |
| 25 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 26 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 27 | ROPEMAKERS in Ken-dal , Cumbria , have turned down orders for hangmen 's nooses from America and Malawi . |
| 28 | A cut down version of Vxfs , Vxfs Lite for file system integrity , is built into all copies of SVR4.2 and UnixWare . |
| 29 | Mechanical tillage ( apart from rolling ) is designed to turn over soil or break down clods into tilth crumbs of a suitable size . |
| 30 | It is above all a joyous celebration of all who break down barriers between people set up by authority . |