Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 2 | For both reasons , the amount of looking at the listener should go down during a phase of speech production which involves a large amount of cognitive planning . |
| 3 | The viewing figure must go down by a half now . |
| 4 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 5 | So after gravitational collapse a black hole must settle down into a state in which it could be rotating , but not pulsating . |
| 6 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 7 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 8 | NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO just might go down as a memorable year in the history of Britain , if not the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Actually I might put down for a s . |
| 10 | Things 'll quieten down in a week or so . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll send some medicine for her , but she will need fruit and milk , and some other special things that I 'll write down on a piece of paper for you . ’ |
| 12 | Exposed for a long time to moist , saturated , air timber might settle down to a moisture content of 22 per cent or 23 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ I should love to see them sometime , ’ said Charles , ‘ but I wonder if I might sit down for a little ? |
| 14 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 15 | You see , and we , we remember last time we did something , we 'd go down into a or scout movement where |
| 16 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 17 | to there hiatus , hiatus hernia , ooh terrible you 're stitched all inside ooh it 's like you could sit down to a beautiful tea tonight and enjoy it and then you could sit down to your breakfast in morning , one bite and that was you finished |
| 18 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 19 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 20 | We used to slide down on a tray , though we were in trouble if he caught us , mind ! |
| 21 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 22 | Initially , the new system would break down as a result of faults in the computer programs . |
| 23 | And then , if everything ran true to form , the undamaged clays would sail down to a landing somewhere out of sight . |
| 24 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 25 | I also hoped that the speculation at work as to what was going to be done with George 's office would die down for a while . |
| 26 | If it were n't , the star would collapse down to a certain size and then stay like that . |
| 27 | Yet although my addresses were chiefly in the nature of pep-talks , I usually contrived to work in what today would be called ‘ culture ’ , and sometimes the pub scene in The Waste Land or parts of Portrait of a Lady would go down with a wow . |
| 28 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 29 | ‘ I bet this would go down like a lead balloon if it was known in Grantley police station . |
| 30 | Cup of tea would go down like a bomb but |