Example sentences of "[verb] down [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 2 | DURING THE UUAC GENERAL STRIKE THESE AIRCRAFT WERE TOUCHING DOWN EVERY FEW MINUTES AT ALDERGROVE AIRPORT IN THE LARGEST AIR AND SEA MOVEMENT OF TROOPS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE SUEZ OPERATION TWENTY-ONE YEARS EARLIER . |
| 3 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 4 | It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts . |
| 5 | It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory . |
| 6 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 7 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 8 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 9 | If you ca n't get more heat up there , let us move the games room down a few floors . " |
| 10 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 11 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 12 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 13 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 14 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 15 | If you could just jot down a few ideas that . |
| 16 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 17 | Listen to talks — read articles — then jot down a few headings on what message is being conveyed . |
| 18 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 19 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 20 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 21 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 22 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 23 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 24 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 25 | When he had wolfed down a few chapattis and an onion bhaji , Amiss took a slurp of lager and then leaned back . |
| 26 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 27 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 28 | Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help , you make sense of your thoughts . |
| 29 | I somehow do n't think they will take major amounts of money at those very restrictive odds , though I suppose you may get a couple of punters putting down a few quid each way : - ) . |
| 30 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |