Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 32 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 33 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 34 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 35 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 36 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 37 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 38 | Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation . |
| 39 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 40 | I actually do think what we 've got down in the third session is an enormous help from the point of view of our future review . |
| 41 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 42 | Going down to the next layer , each of these moves consists of specified acts , as in Figure 6 . |
| 43 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 44 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 45 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 46 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 47 | It was not until seven o'clock in the morning that Gabriel climbed down from the last rick , exhausted and wet to the skin . |
| 48 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
| 49 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 50 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 51 | This possibility gradually breaks down in the next two stanzas . |
| 52 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 53 | The move was widely interpreted as a confirmation of Keating 's position as Hawke 's successor , and fuelled speculation that the Prime Minister might step down before the next election . |
| 54 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 55 | The golf course is where Nigel Mansell cools down for the next race … and that next race is Silverstone and the British Grand Prix … forget Monaco and Monza … for our Nigel British is still the best … |
| 56 | The paramount feature of pentatonic scales is the absence of semitones : This absence of semitones has two effects : there is no leading note to pull towards the tonic ; and no fourth degree note to gravitate down to the third . |
| 57 | So who 's coming down on the eleventh or twelfth of November ? |
| 58 | Where notification is given at the first stage , but not in accordance with the procedures laid down for the first stage , you shall not be disentitled to SSP for that day for that reason only . |
| 59 | Where further notification is not given on the fourth day in accordance with the procedures laid down for the second stage , you shall not be disentitled to SSP from the fourth day of absence for that reason only . |
| 60 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |