Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 2 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 3 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 4 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 5 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 6 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 7 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 8 | Tragically , these trees are being torn down from the rapidly diminishing rainforests — and are not being replanted . |
| 9 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 10 | But it will be harder to crack down on the really powerful and harmful culprits in the shadow economy — the state bureaucrats who use their privileged access to goods heavily subsidized by the state to make fat profits for themselves . |
| 11 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 12 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 13 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 14 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 15 | Yanto asked , as they climbed down into the half empty hold of the ‘ Marit ’ . |
| 16 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 17 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 18 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 19 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 20 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 21 | A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life . |
| 22 | Shaking the loose shards of glass from the splintered frame , she stared down at the dearly familiar face of her father , and felt some of the waning strength flow back to her limbs . |
| 23 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 24 | Just a spoonful of sugar of sugar makes the medicine go down in the most delightful way ! |
| 25 | I went down to the straight away to the coal dealer and said , Take him a load of coal , and he took him . |
| 26 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 27 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 28 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 29 | After bathing and dressing we wander down to the surprisingly well attended dining room for Christmas lunch . |
| 30 | Could always be relied upon to break down on the most dangerous stretch of the motorway . |