Example sentences of "[verb] down [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 2 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 3 | In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences . |
| 4 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 5 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 6 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 7 | I squat down next to the little kid and point again . |
| 8 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 9 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 10 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 11 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 12 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |
| 13 | It 's a good idea to write down all of the incidents concerning your boss which you believe to be unfair . |
| 14 | The other part of your homework I 've given you to do , is to write down all of the intervals that you can possibly have . |
| 15 | Now though the present owners are re-building the house and plan to pull down all of the existing part . |
| 16 | This might also help break down some of the misconceptions that can grow up between organisations . |
| 17 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |
| 18 | Air now passes down this to the mouth of the fish which is connected to tiny openings in the parchment cocoon . |
| 19 | Looking down one of the Avenues is like looking at the inversion of a sunset . |
| 20 | She could see waterfalls cascading down some of the mountain-sides and in the distance a lake . |
| 21 | If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design . |
| 22 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 23 | They 've already tracked down many of the people who stayed at the guest house over the past week . |
| 24 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 25 | Iraq and the Mujahideen claim separately to have shot down one of the Iranian aircraft . |
| 26 | Doug Whitney was in the air and was credited with shooting down one Bf109 which had just shot down one of the Hurricanes . |
| 27 | Fortunately , in this series of articles we will use more conventional maps to set us on the treasure trail , because it is my belief that correctly interpreted , the Ordnance Survey maps of the British Isles already contain most of the information necessary to track down some of the treasures that time has so cunningly concealed ! |
| 28 | With a parallel interface all eight can be sent together with one bit going down each of the eight wires . |
| 29 | The Cowboys lost for the second time this season , going down 27–23 to the Los Angeles Rams when Aikman failed to produce a last-minute miracle . |
| 30 | Tennyson turning down one of the countless invitations to tea with which he was plagued is one thing . |