Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit down on daddy 's lap . |
| 2 | The policemen push down on Tepilit 's shoulders as the judge takes his seat to indicate that he , too , should sit . |
| 3 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 4 | The House of Lords upheld the law laid down in West 's case , Lord Scarman stating at p189 : |
| 5 | ( 5 ) Wherever , in ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above , the order requires one or other court to consider whether it ought to try the case or whether it ought to transfer it ( pursuant to the powers of transfer under ss 40(2) , 41(1) or 42(2) of the 1984 Act ) that court must have regard to the criteria laid down in art 7(5) and set out at the start of Chapter 13 . |
| 6 | Yet , said Mr. Watkinson , Lord Bridge can hardly have had it in mind that the private law right which he plainly regarded as coming into existence when the duty laid down in section 65(2) arose could give rise to a public law duty as to the manner in which the private law right was to be satisfied . |
| 7 | This rather limited list of excuses , laid down in section 39(2) of the 1944 Act , must be regarded as exhaustive . |
| 8 | The rule laid down in article 6(1) therefore applies where the actions brought against the various defendants are related when the proceedings are instituted , that is to say where it is expedient to hear and determine them together in order to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings . |
| 9 | The second is that one applies the conflict rule laid down in article 7(3) itself on the assumption that its conditions have been satisfied . |
| 10 | The court reached that conclusion after holding that the quota system established by Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 constituted a derogation from the general rule of equal conditions of access to fishery resources laid down in article 2(1) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 : see paragraph 24 of the judgment , at pp. 221–222 . |
| 11 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 12 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 13 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 14 | Touching down on Luqa 's main runway , heading east and sitting on the port side of the aircraft , the aviation-oriented visitor to the Island is drawn to a distinctive sight within the village of Kirkop , just of the Airport 's southern perimeter road , three fins ! |
| 15 | After touching down at Antigua 's V C Bird airport , the party boarded a Carib Air airplane to the nearby island of Nevis , where the party will stay at the ‘ spartan ’ 16-room Montpelier Plantation Inn . |
| 16 | 3 At 4 pm. her car engine starts playing up a bit so she slows down to 20km /h for the rest of her journey home , Answer these questions from your graph . |
| 17 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 18 | Jim says no , Kath 's asked him if he would like to go but he wanted to go down to Wembley er get yourself away ! |
| 19 | But he used to go down to Pearson 's house in Beckenham , Kent and spend time with his children , Simon and Patrick . |
| 20 | They permitted me to go down into Tara 's Sorcery Chambers for this . |
| 21 | Her dark-clad arm now overlapped the armrest , a loop of sleeve hanging down on Alice 's side . |
| 22 | The Act was a success , although the ‘ particulates ’ ( mainly soot ) raining down over Britain 's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s . |
| 23 | Since the new rule was rubber stamped last Monday , the blows raining down upon racing 's legislators in Portland Square , London , have come from fairly predictable sources . |
| 24 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 25 | The boy knelt down by Philip 's wreck of a trap . |
| 26 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 27 | Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment . |
| 28 | Juanito was ready for him , and the Kalashnikov crashed down at Trent 's calf . |
| 29 | Of all the Royal Family , it is the Queen Mother who has felt most let down by Fergie 's behaviour . |
| 30 | The plant , robbed of light , did not do well , and eventually David was moved down to Emma 's windows . |