Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 2 | My minute will be burnt , or composted , or trodden down into mulch , into humus , into peat , into soft coal , into hard . |
| 3 | or going down into Ipswich with your mum and coming up with grandpa . |
| 4 | we can maximise the space if you get in that leg room of about one millimetre or lie down on people 's laps and then we can build or may be even lie down on |
| 5 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 6 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 7 | The tendency in the past has been to restrict or cut down on plant proteins and increase animal protein in the diet . |
| 8 | These valuations are way over the top and it is time a lot of these councillors where brought down to earth . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 10 | In all the really agricultural villages and parts of the kingdom , there is a shocking decay ; a great dilapidation and constant pulling down or falling down of houses . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , there are some pretty primitive creatures driving around with money in their Torpedoes and Boomerangs , or sitting down with money at the Mahatma or the Assisi , or just standing there with money , in the shops , in the pubs , in the streets . |
| 12 | Or melted down for soap . |
| 13 | But there was hardly any left , only the long empty expanse from the last container to the door in the super-structure that led down to Nell . |
| 14 | There was nothing more interesting to be seen than if this had been the entrance to a rabbit warren , nothing but a tunnel that led down into darkness . |
| 15 | Yeah this is the one that goes down to Poole is n't it . |
| 16 | There was another pathfinder service that goes down to Norwood Gardens . |
| 17 | You can buy phosphate test kits , but you 'll need one that measures down to 0.1ppm or below . |
| 18 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 19 | But the trousers were no ordinary trousers : they were whole-falls , that is , trousers with a flap that let down in front like a sailor 's . |
| 20 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 21 | He was standing at the edge of the water , looking into the turgid grey-brown eddies that poured down towards Breidden with such force and in so absolute a silence . |
| 22 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 23 | Cats that lie down on grass soaked in weed-killer and then fastidiously lick their fur clean will ingest this type of poison with alarming ease . |
| 24 | Amongst the other Forest streams , there are two that flow down from Herefordshire . |
| 25 | Unlike a machine that breaks down with use , we become stronger , more flexible and age more slowly if every muscle and joint is used frequently . |
| 26 | But did Dorothy not agree that cutting down on women might be a solution to the population problem in the third world ? |
| 27 | Some experts believe that cutting down on dairy products may help . |
| 28 | Most doctors and nutritionists would agree that cutting down on fat , especially animal fat , and sugar are two good rules for eating in midlife , even though not all agree that positive proof of their harmful effects is conclusive . |
| 29 | It is no longer a steam locomotive but a fast diesel pulling a trail of red , white and blue carriages , an express that rumbles down to Ashqelon between the orchards and the sea . |
| 30 | Well , she chose to go on , up along the hump of moorland that looked down on Back Clough Dale . |