Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 2 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 3 | The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) on Jan. 2 shot down a transport helicopter with three United States military advisers on board over Lolotique , eastern El Salvador . |
| 4 | He strolled forward , and Sabine fought down a prickle of apprehension . |
| 5 | It is easy to blast down a grade 5 river without much skill . |
| 6 | A BOY aged THREE knocked down a poll tax collector and trapped a workman yesterday after commandeering a milk float . |
| 7 | But it still remains as hard to pin down a professional . |
| 8 | The latter pulls down a menu giving you the option to ‘ maximise ’ the window . |
| 9 | It takes hardly any time at all to swoosh down a can of cola , and neither does this seem to have any effect in satisfying the appetite . |
| 10 | Mike Wood normally flies Hawk jets but he 's happy to go down a step to share the piloting with Squadron Leader , Tim Farmer who 's happy to step up from his normal ground based job as a health and environment officer . |
| 11 | erm We have n't as yet , erm the problem is I do n't normally deal with the sub- committee , the person that 's that should be dealing with it is not here today , so I 've been unable to track down a copy of this letter . |
| 12 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 13 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 14 | She had not been able to hold down a job because of her phobia — no one is really willing to employ someone who will only come into the office on fine days , particularly in England ! |
| 15 | Kitty never seemed to be able to hold down a job for more than a week at a time , but somehow she was still better dressed than any of us . |
| 16 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 17 | unemployed people will not be able to turn down a job offer on the basis of the pay being too low ; |
| 18 | Rather below the normal height , his cheeks ruddy and somewhat full , the eyes keen and animated , large lips , his thick black beard flecked with grey falling down a hand and a half long , he bore an air of authority , and in anger his frown became imperious . |
| 19 | Good to see United taken down a peg or two last evening , though it was nausating hearing that swarmy bastard Armfield and his accomplice talking about the scum in such glowing terms . |
| 20 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 21 | Now when that settles down a little bit more , maybe in a year or two , we shall lime-wash the whole frame over so you wo n't see the timbers for a bit , and just lime-wash right over the whole timbers . |
| 22 | Thus having first laid down a basis of material being , material forms , forces , existences in which it seems to be lying inconscient , though in reality , as we know always subconsciously at work , it is able to manifest life and living beings , to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world , and must therefore be able to manifest their supermind also and supramental beings . |
| 23 | In such conditions , with clays deep and clinging enough to bog down a regiment of horses , the real issue was not one of scraping versus watering but of radical improvement in methods of building and repair . |
| 24 | Will that cool down a bit ? |
| 25 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 26 | Two escaped down a drainpipe . |