Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 2 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 3 | because it 's got a desk , it 's desk and er , we keep it , er this comes down as a desk , you can write on there |
| 4 | We were at the rear of a crowd hundreds strong looking down upon a scene of devastation : shanties burnt and smouldering , shanties still burning , pouring forth black smoke . |
| 5 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 6 | Sometimes , such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level . |
| 7 | According to government claims , over 250 LTTE rebels were killed between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 , including over 100 shot down from a helicopter as they cycled to reinforce LTTE positions near Kopay . |
| 8 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 9 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 10 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 11 | Although we will clarify it in the course of this study , multimedia is hard to pin down to a rigid definition . |
| 12 | Next remove all the old putty from both parts of the joint and give the metal surfaces a good rub down with a wire brush and , if necessary , abrasive paper before applying two coats of bitumastic paint . |
| 13 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 14 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 15 | It all boils down to a simple equation : |
| 16 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 17 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |
| 18 | Let's all sit down in a circle and ask the magic to work . ’ |
| 19 | Then they all settle down for a bit and design some mountains . |
| 20 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 21 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 22 | In the middle of digging they all sat down for a mug of tea . |
| 23 | The platform party mingled with the other guests before all sat down to an excellent table buffet luncheon . |
| 24 | Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant . |
| 25 | In the end it all comes down to a matter of priorities . |
| 26 | Down the hill from the village is King 's Road Lock from where relaunching is difficult although with care it is possible to climb down onto a floating baulk of timber moored on the left side . |
| 27 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 28 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 29 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 30 | With that comparatively primitive system we were able to fly down to a height of 200 feet above the runway . |