Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the new " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 2 | The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements . |
| 3 | Landforms developed in relation to the earlier and higher base level are abandoned as erosion starts to work down to the new base level . |
| 4 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 5 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 6 | The whole affair , however , failed to gain the status of a diplomatic issue and started to calm down after the New Year holiday , leaving bad feeling between different groups of students . |
| 7 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 8 | This is best explained by reference to the diagram , topsoil being removed from a small area at a time and the chalk quarried down to the new level . |
| 9 | There were serious disturbances in Beirut and Tripoli which were put down by the new Lebanese administration with the help of French troops . |
| 10 | The chairman , Chris Patten , will shortly sit down with the new head of the Downing Street policy unit , Sarah Hogg , to write the first draft of Mr Major 's manifesto . |
| 11 | Just as the marine terrace represents the abandoned sea floor , so do river terraces represent valley floors abandoned by the rivers as they start to cut down to the new and lower base level . |
| 12 | That was a case , I worked in a hotel for years and years and it closed down with the new bypass and that , and just a girl beside me , she was coming for an interview , to the B M K and I came with her . |