Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most cases the bulge settles down , as long as you have sufficient horizontal rest and take good care of your back . |
| 2 | Assertion of the principle served to do away with the monarch 's previously claimed powers to suspend or dispense with acts of Parliament and it served to deny judges the power to strike down measures . |
| 3 | With a shake of its magnificent antlers the stag charged down the slope towards them . |
| 4 | To find out what effect this has on the perch 's eggs , and how much the minnows gain from the ploy , Reiko Baba of Japan 's Osaka City University spent up to six hours a day face down in a stream , armed with a snorkel and face mask . |
| 5 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 6 | And Preston very tense behind the sofa , because when his nan called someone madam she meant business , and although he did n't know what adultery meant exactly he knew it was something smutty and another of the things the commandments came down pretty hard on . |
| 7 | Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed . |
| 8 | It was one of the conditions the Colonel laid down if he was to remain in hospital . ’ |
| 9 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 10 | The State Council gave the armed groups an ultimatum to lay down their arms by March 30 and to open transport routes . |
| 11 | In spilling breakers the crest spills down the front of the wave without the wave front becoming vertical and surges forward over the beach . |
| 12 | … I do n't see what harm that 's doing to the [ river ] when there are thousands of millions of gallons a day coming down . ’ |
| 13 | It is in his interest to speak against us , to force up rents , not fix them fairly , to give his friends a charter to chop down our forests . |
| 14 | What appears to be a mortar explosion close by causes the column to get down on the flooded ground . |
| 15 | And these this is er a private car going along the road about fifty miles an hour going down towards Dover . |