Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] down a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 2 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 3 | Yeah I was I had a shower , well , perhaps the water 's been turned down a bit . |
| 4 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 5 | A set of pictures can be hung from ribbons or cords — for example , a set of two or three miniature ovals can be hung down a length of ribbon , with a velvet or silk bow positioned at the top of the strip . |
| 6 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 7 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 8 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
| 9 | He deserved to be taken down a peg or two . |
| 10 | The Gary Hutchinson Memorial Appeal is aiming to raise between £12,000 and £15,000 to pay for an image transmission system which will allow those pictures to be sent down a telephone line so specialists at another hospital can advise immediately whether a patient needs to be moved for surgery . |
| 11 | The first three songs on the album are tuned down a half step . ’ |
| 12 | It was like the sound of fingernails being dragged down a blackboard . |
| 13 | After that I would shower them away , and peering over my side — all in my mind — would watch them being swept down a hillside in a cleansing torrent of water . |
| 14 | The campaign was swift ; Sigismund was handed over to Chlodomer and murdered , together with his wife and children ; their corpses were thrown down a well . |
| 15 | That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 . |
| 16 | Taking Dobre aside , Ceauşescu made it clear to him that his talents were wasted down a mine . |
| 17 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 18 | A narrow beam of light , about half a micron in diameter , is passed down a microscope focussed on a stained nucleus . |
| 19 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 20 | Main Picture Centre : Materials are lowered down a ventilation shaft for Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Junction Canal . |
| 21 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |
| 22 | Corbett was led down a maze of corridors and into a chamber where the Prince of Wales and Gaveston , both white-faced and sober , stood waiting to receive him . |
| 23 | He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg . |
| 24 | EVIL Tom Courtney was thrown down a flight of stairs after being confronted by angry fellow prisoners , it was claimed yesterday . |