Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 2 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 3 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 5 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 6 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 7 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 8 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 9 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 10 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 11 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 12 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |
| 13 | In time the first snowflakes fluttered down between the trees . |
| 14 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 15 | The formulae employed to calculate their annual payments produced figures no higher than the rents laid down in the charters , but as we have already seen , and as Alexander Gerschenkron stresses , the rents laid down in the charters were excessively high . |
| 16 | The formulae employed to calculate their annual payments produced figures no higher than the rents laid down in the charters , but as we have already seen , and as Alexander Gerschenkron stresses , the rents laid down in the charters were excessively high . |
| 17 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 18 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 19 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 20 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 21 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 22 | Unless extra resources and training are made available , the ESO procedure laid down in the Children Act 1989 may not herald a new emphasis on the causes of truancy . |
| 23 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 24 | It emphasized that many people considered that direct contact between boards and course teams was ‘ one of the most valued aspects of the Council 's operation ’ , and the Council concurred with this view as long as boards worked within the policies laid down by the committees . |
| 25 | It would not be possible to talk of error of law at all unless such elements did have a ‘ given ’ meaning because , says Gould , such language implies a departure from a criterion laid down by the courts . |
| 26 | Other classes — peasants and now workers — were accepted only on the terms laid down by the leaders . |
| 27 | By section 3(1) of the same Act the European Court is recognized as being the ultimate determinant of the principles of law laid down by the Treaties and subsequent EEC legislation . |
| 28 | The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns . |
| 29 | There are also standard shapes for tensile test specimens , laid down by the standards bodies ( BSI , ASTM , DIN ) in various countries , which have been developed as a result of stress analysis . |
| 30 | The deliberations in Bonn were guided by rules laid down by the Allies . |