Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers in Orkney , it seems , even ignored the guidelines laid down by their own association . |
| 2 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 3 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
| 4 | Many claim to have had these near death ; floating near the ceiling while looking down at their dying ( or clinically dead ) physical frames . |
| 5 | Looking down at their still and silent master , the two dogs began to slink nearer until they lay down beside him , noses resting on his body . |
| 6 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 7 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 8 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 9 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 10 | These provide a succession of blooms from mid-June — with feverfew ( Chrysanthemum parthenium ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) and lupin ( Lupinus nootkatensis ) — through the summer with tansy ( Tan- acetum vulgare ) and soapwort ( Saponaria officinatis ) , until mid-October when the Michaelmas daisies ( Aster novi-belgii ) finally die down after their two-month flowering period . |
| 11 | Over at the laibon 's engang they are bedded down behind their own thicket of thorn bushes , the cattle jammed together in a large boma and the goats in a smaller one right in the middle , as far from the athletic leopards as possible . |
| 12 | got down at their own steam I suppose |
| 13 | and they 're all going down with their little cards in their hands as they |
| 14 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 15 | Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989 . |
| 16 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 17 | And the horsemen came riding down with their horned helmets and their lances and William was running , screaming , towards the village , but it was always too far away . |
| 18 | And it came as no surprise when Saints ' strong-running second row Chris Joynt touched down for their fourth and final try in the dying seconds . |
| 19 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 20 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 21 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |
| 22 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 23 | The ‘ charming and delightful ’ London lawyer grandfather who told stories , or the once stern parent who could find ‘ no limit to his indulgence for his grandchildren ; ’ the weekly visit to a landowning grandfather ‘ to whom we were deeply attached ; ’ the ‘ lengthened visits ’ from ‘ very kind ’ grandparents , or a grandson 's ‘ happiest days ’ , being ‘ thoroughly spoiled ’ in the countryside , are all typical Especially with upper-class families these visits were often directly linked with the handing down of their own distinctive family traditions . |
| 24 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 25 | He had no time for the ritual marriage with the Everqueen since the legions of Nagarythe had swept down from their grim realm , bearing the banner of Malekith before them . |
| 26 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 27 | Nodding down at their silent , unmoving burden , Chuck answered their unspoken question . |
| 28 | But old timers fear a return to the violent , drunken days that saw Wild Bill Hickok gunned down in their local saloon . |
| 29 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 30 | If a self-access library is to be effective , you need to spend time viewing every recording , putting yourself in the position of trainees sitting down on their own to make what they can of it . |