Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 2 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 3 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 4 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 5 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 6 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 7 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 8 | But they , the Conservatives are cutting down on the health service and everything else and the schools |
| 9 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
| 10 | By the way , your ma will be able to help out at your dairy for a month or two as I 'm cutting down on the number of cows at the manor . |
| 11 | Away from the madding crowds the Sarsfields clubman is to be found down on the 100 acre family farm in Ballyuan presiding over the sheep and cattle . |
| 12 | Part of the problem is that , because we know we should be cutting down on the amount of sugar we eat , we 're turning more and more to diet drinks , which contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin . |
| 13 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 14 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 15 | It suggests I 'm falling down on the job . |
| 16 | Any bar or disco which exceeds its permitted decibel limit can be shut down on the spot for the night by police . |
| 17 | Thus twenty tons of explosives could have been rained down on the Voie Sacrée each day , not to mention demoralising night attacks . |
| 18 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 19 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 20 | Times certainly are changing down on the farm in the TV soap Emmerdale 's new calendar . |
| 21 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 22 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 23 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 24 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 25 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 26 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 27 | Several trees were burned down on the Splash premises . |
| 28 | Several trees were burned down on the Splash premises . |
| 29 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 30 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |