Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards as the plaudits for the winner died down , Homer confided in me : ‘ You 've just seen the best jockey since Jonjo O'Neill , ’ and who would argue with that assertion nowadays ? |
| 2 | They were workable and reasonable and should be difficult for the government to turn down . |
| 3 | It really is time for the courts to stamp down on motoring infringments . |
| 4 | ‘ But , one year or so for the Services to wind down is pretty drastic . ’ |
| 5 | As he waited for the noise to die down , Forester looked around the room . |
| 6 | The 150th anniversary of the founding of the Great Western was marked in style but to many it will be remembered for the decision to shut down Swindon Works . |
| 7 | He waited for the laughter to die down and then , ignoring Mickey Aronson , he leaned his head out of the window , gave his gravelly laugh and confided to the other men : ‘ A bigger ignoramus I never met ; he does n't even know that ships and cars are always female . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I had to make a guess this morning , ’ she told Alina , glancing back over her shoulder from the Cona machine as she waited for the water to run down through the filter . |
| 9 | A very long aisle is too far for the friends to walk down . |
| 10 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 11 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 12 | As for the penalty handed down by ICC match referee Conrad Hunte , Aqib Javed was generously spared a match suspension , having to find only half his match fee of around £275 , which is derisory in the contest of the player 's income from match bonuses etc . |
| 13 | On June 23 , the leaders of four of the newly legalized parties — the Front populaire ivoirien , the Union des sociaux démocrates , the Parti ivoirien des travailleurs and Parti socialiste ivoirien , formally called for the President to step down as head of the PDCI and for the resignation of the government and its replacement with a transitional administration . |
| 14 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 15 | I 'll arrange for the carriers to come down as soon as I get back . |
| 16 | We waited another half hour behind a pile of sand for the shooting to die down . |
| 17 | It stuck a bit halfway , since zippers always do , but it did n't take long to get an opening big enough for the nomes to climb down inside . |
| 18 | The effects of oil pollution on marine mammals are more severe in colder waters , not only because of the much longer time required for the oil to break down , but also because concentrations of cetaceans and other marine mammals are often larger in polar waters . |
| 19 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 20 | Further West Borrow really let his imagination run riot , writing of the ‘ sacrificial rock ’ on Carn Brae above Redruth and the gulleys as ‘ … outlets for the blood to stream down ’ . |
| 21 | You look even over there on that building there 's above the window there 's a drip course , by the doorway , is a drip course for the rain coming down dripping off . |
| 22 | But hardly had the applause for the Collector died down when two hands reached up and dragged him down the stairs by his braces and into the crowd . |
| 23 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 24 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 25 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |
| 26 | When the onboard tuner is activated in this way the guitar signal is instantly muted , avoiding the need for the player to bend down to the tuner switch on the unit , or re-patch the guitar lead . |
| 27 | When it comes to such matters as the protection of creditors and third parties dealing with a company , the obvious way forward is for the Community to lay down in its Directives detailed rules which are to be given similar effect under national law in all member states . |
| 28 | To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . |
| 29 | It took only a few minutes for the Doctor to break down and analyse the strangely oily powder , using the lateral molecular rectifier to be absolutely certain . |
| 30 | In the lobby of her building , waiting for the lift to come down , she found herself wondering whether she would bump into Matthew Prescott before next Wednesday . |