Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'll be scrawny and down at heel , I bet . |
| 2 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 3 | Another recent royal portraitist is the amiable and down to earth Yorkshireman , Tom Wood . |
| 4 | The courses offered cover a huge range of time , from the origins of the human species , through the millennia of prehistory , the early civilizations of Mesopotamia , Egypt and the East Mediterranean and down to Celtic Europe at the beginning of Roman imperial expansion in Western Europe . |
| 5 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 6 | On a practical and down to earth level it is worth finding out what clerical support you are likely to get in the clinic or base where you will be working . |
| 7 | Er now some more practical and down to earth aspects er Michael director of development will run through the critical path analysis for the new factory extension . |
| 8 | More often she reminds me of our paternal grandmother , plump , practical and down to earth , ruling her household and large family with a shrewd capacity for command , always in an overall , her hair never tidy , her arms often covered in flour , talkative and affectionate . |
| 9 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 10 | The whole hotel of which this was the Sanctum sanctorum gave an impression of earlier magnificence now a little dusty and down at heel . |
| 11 | Blues is viciously streamlined to a sound more U2-mainstreamed and modern , but still wild and down to earth . |
| 12 | Blues is viciously streamlined to a sound more U2-mainstreamed and modern , but still wild and down to earth . |